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:-

  • It's never crowded on the extra mile.

    ~ Wayne Dyer quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Wayne Dyer

  • That’s precisely the question everyone should be asking—why the hell not?

    ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

    Motivational Quotes on: Work, Skin

  • "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night of the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

    ~ William Shakespeare quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Individuality

  • As you start to see the possibilities in the impossible, you will begin to see that the world works “perfectly.” You can find reason and purpose in everything—if you open your mind to it.

    ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

    Self-Development Quotes on: Fear, Purpose, Work, Mind, Reason, Perfect, Impossible, World, Will, Feel, Possibilities

  • As soon as you concern yourself with the “good” and “bad” of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.

    ~ Morihei Ueshiba quotes from The Art of Peace

    Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Weak, Defeat

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Quotes by Topic

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Quotes by Teachers

T. Harv Eker Ralph Waldo Emerson Byron Katie Unknown Seneca Carlos Castaneda Wallace D. Wattles Susan Jeffers Henry David Thoreau Walter Russell Friedrich Nietzsche Timothy Ferriss John Eliot, Ph.D. Dan Millman Albert Einstein Napoleon Hill David Emerald James Allen Marlo Morgan Joseph Campbell Paulo Coelho Roger McDonald Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Mevlana Rumi Tony Robbins Abraham Maslow Robert Cooper Wayne Dyer Buddha Winston Churchill Dalai Lama Anonymous Russell Simmons David McCullough Viktor Frankl Jim Rohn Leo Buscaglia Stephen R. Covey Anthony de Mello Robert Frost T.S. Elliot Abraham Lincoln Elbert Hubbard John Ruskin Benjamin Disraeli Confucius Oscar Wilde Henry Ford William Blake Neale Donald Walsch Epictetus Andrew Cohen Jean Jacques Rousseau Harry Truman Franklin D. Roosevelt George Bernard Shaw Peter Drucker Turuvalluvar James Baldwin Mahatma Gandhi Charles Coonradt G.K. Chesterton William Purkey Wayne Gretsky George Orwell Ramana Maharshi Margaret Atwood Henry Van Dyke Swahili Warrior Song Morpheus Charles F. Kettering Anais Nin Don Miguel Ruiz Thomas Carlyle Stephen Covey John Wooden Bob Nardelli Italian Proverb Elaine Myers Donald Trump John Donne The Talmud Eric Butterworth Jean Sibelius Sun Tzu B.C. Forbes Marilyn Vos Savant Paul R. Scheele Cowper Michael McGriffy M.D. Eknath Easwaran Aristotle Onassis Ralph Charell Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Lisa Kirk Vincent Van Gogh Martin Luther King, Jr. Marcus Aurelius St Augustine Meister Eckhart Ross Perot Ali Ben Stein Brock Tully Chinese Proverb Rabindranath Tagore Carl Jung Sigmund Romberg Arnold Glascow Harriet Beecher Stowe Dutch proverb Antoine de Saint-Exupery A Course in Miracles Cardinal de Retz Laurence J. Peter Max Wertheimer Tom J. Connelly Teddy Roosevelt Lynne McTaggart Robert Fulghum Daniel Goleman Bill Watterson W.H. Murray Dr. Herbert Benson Tim Sanders William Gibson Charles Schwab Pat Riley Milton Erickson Jesus Karen Casey Swahili proverb Krishna Yajur Veda D.H Lawrence Arnold Toynbee Ekhart Tolle Irwin Edman Aaron Copland Sally Kempton Frank Herbert Gay & Katie Hendricks Rolf Potts Frank Lloyd Wright Thea Alexander Doug Firebaugh Lao-tzu Ann Landers La Rochefoucauld e.e. cummings Brahma Kumaris Herbert Otto

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