Inspirational quotes.

Emerson instructed us to “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your reading have been to you like the blast of truimpth out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.”

Following Emerson’s guidance, I offer some of my favorite blasts of triumph. You can search by topic or by teacher or you can just hit refresh and keep getting 5 new random quotes below:-

  • The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

    ~ James Branch Cabell quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Fear, Live, Best, World, Aim, Optimist

  • Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

    ~ Ayn Rand quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Hope

  • Your work is to discover your work ad then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

    ~ Buddha quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Buddha, Heart, Work, Discover, Give

  • Poor people choose to play the role of the victim.

    ~ T. Harv Eker quotes from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

    Motivational Quotes on: Secret, Mind, People, Poor, Victim

  • Racism is man's gravest threat to man--the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

    ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Reason

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Quotes by Topic

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Quotes by Teachers

T. Harv Eker Byron Katie Ralph Waldo Emerson Susan Jeffers Wallace D. Wattles Unknown Mevlana Rumi Joseph Campbell Seneca Timothy Ferriss James Allen Carlos Castaneda Walter Russell Albert Einstein David Emerald Napoleon Hill Robert Cooper Paulo Coelho Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Mark Twain Robin Sharma Viktor Frankl Dan Millman Esther & Jerry Hicks Tony Robbins Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Benjamin Franklin Confucius John Eliot, Ph.D. William James Vernon Howard Stephen R. Covey Richard Bach Abraham Lincoln Eleanor Roosevelt Roger McDonald Chinese Proverb Oscar Wilde Ayn Rand Friedrich Nietzsche Johan Wolfgang von Goethe Russell Simmons Connie Zweig Marcus Aurelius Marlo Morgan Marianne Williamson Steve Jobs Donny Deutsch Thomas A. Edison Norman Vincent Peale Jim Rohn Ernest Holmes Voltaire Kahlil Gibran Morihei Ueshiba William Blake Harry Truman Martin Seligman Maya Angelou Werner Erhard Samuel Goldwyn Abraham Maslow Anonymous Bruce Lee Marilyn Vos Savant George Chapman Phillips Brooks Aldous Huxley Malcolm S. Forbes Eric Butterworth Terry Laughlin Jimmy Durante A Course in Miracles Theodore Geisel Daniel Cohen Dr. Petrie O.H. Mowrer R. Buckminster Fuller Samuel Johnson Will Rogers Ann Landers Ray Bradbury Epicurus José Silva and Burt Goldman Swahili Warrior Song Jesus Christ Leo Buscaglia Niels Bohr Bertrand Russell Ambrose Redmoon Jacob Bronowski Thomas Troward Percy Ross Thomas Edison Gail Godwin Ken Wilber Winston Churchill Cicero Steven Pressfield Arthur C. Clarke Lilly Tomlin George Allen Gertrude Stein Leonardo da Vinci Oscar Levant Harvey Mackay Oprah Winfrey Don Fraser Grandma Moses Margaret Mead Margaret Atwood Mark Van Doren Teddy Roosevelt Ramana Maharshi Jameson Frank Barbara Sher Buddha Lewis Carroll Bill Watterson Stephen King Søren Kierkegaard Zig Ziglar Napoleon Bonaparte Brian Weir Viktor E. Frankl Meister Eckhart Vimala Thakar John Keating FM Alexander Kelsey Grammer English Proverb Gail Sheehy Soichiro Honda Rabindranath Tagore Peter N. Zarlenga Howard Gardner Douglas MacArthur John W. Newbern Gretta Brooker Palmer Dr. Karl Menninger Socrates Andrew Jackson Dave Barry Paramahansa Yogananda Stewart B. Johnson Yoruba of Nigeria proverb Aristotle Daniel Goleman Christian D. Larson Rene Descartes Mother Theresa

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