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:-

  • An average man is too concerned with liking people or with being liked himself. A warrior likes, that's all. He likes whatever or whomever he wants, for the hell of it.

    ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from A Separate Reality

    Motivational Quotes on: Love, Friendship, Warrior, People

  • Oneness for us is not an essence that surrounds things or is present inside of things—it is everything!

    ~ Marlo Morgan quotes from Mutant Message from Down Under

  • A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.

    ~ Kahlil Gibran quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Teach, Kahlil Gibran, Mind, Teacher

  • For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you.

    ~ Brian Tracy quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Attitude, Responsibility

  • Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

    ~ John W. Gardner quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Confidence, Victim

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Quotes by Topic

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Quotes by Teachers

Ralph Waldo Emerson Byron Katie T. Harv Eker Unknown Carlos Castaneda Walter Russell Mevlana Rumi Susan Jeffers Henry David Thoreau Albert Einstein Wallace D. Wattles Mark Twain Friedrich Nietzsche Seneca Paulo Coelho Donny Deutsch David Emerald Joseph Campbell John Eliot, Ph.D. David McCullough Wayne Dyer Marlo Morgan Oscar Wilde Aristotle Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi James Allen Buddha Tony Robbins Voltaire Robert Cooper Roger McDonald Robin Sharma Neal Donald Walsch Timothy Ferriss Chinese Proverb Dale Carnegie Leo Buscaglia Connie Zweig Ayn Rand Esther & Jerry Hicks Mahatma Gandhi Abraham Maslow Thomas Merton Mother Theresa The Dalai Lama Jim Rohn Richard Bach Napoleon Hill Viktor Frankl Epictetus Galileo Galilei Oliver Wendell Holmes Franklin D. Roosevelt John F. Kennedy Margaret Mead Irish Proverb Neale Donald Walsch William James Plato Lao-tzu Robert Allen Martin Luther King, Jr. Winston Churchill Vernon Howard Zenrin Jose Ortega y Gasset Thomas Jefferson Sylvester Stallone FM Alexander Tirukural George Chapman Ralf W. Sockman Raymond Inmon Charles Kingsley Ramana Maharshi John J. McCloy Papa Wallenda Paul Valery T.S. Elliot Frank Tibolt Stewart B. Johnson Anonymous Jean de La Bruyere Mexican Proverb Thomas H. Huxley Doug Firebaugh Tennessee Williams Dorothy Parker Andre Previn Sri Ramana Maharishi Dolly Parton Michelangelo Plotinus Emerson Robertson Davies Nido Qubein G.K. Chesterton Ronald Reagan Socrates Old New York Proverb St. Francis of Assisi Thomas A. Edison Anthony Robbins Joko Beck David Mahoney Robert Goizueta The Emerald Tablets of Thoth Marilyn Vos Savant Confucius Doug Larson Walt Disney Jim Carrey Alvin Toffler Maya Angelou Andrew Cohen Golda Meir W. Clement Stone Anais Nin American Heritage Dictionary Theodore Roosevelt Marcus Aurelius Peter N. Zarlenga Dave Barry Dr. Candace B. Pert Henry Van Dyke Henry Ford William Arthur Ward Rita Rudner Jack Welch Oliver Cromwell Albert Giacometti Robert Browning David Joseph Schwartz The Upanishads Benjamin Franklin Stephen R. Covey Nikola Tesla Charles Schwab Martin Luther King Jr. Viktor E. Frankl Bruce Lee Dalai Lama Peter Drucker Danny G. Will Rogers Frederick the Great Claudia Black Michael Jordan Arthur Schopenhauer Katharine Graham Leonardo da Vinci

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