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 learners shall inherit the earth while the learned will be beautifully equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

    ~ Eric Hoffer quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Learn, Learning, Learned

  • The society that puts equality before freedom will wind up with neither. but the society that puts freedom before equality will wind up with a great measure of both.

    ~ Milton Friedman quotes

  • Once you say you're going to settle for the second, that's what happens to you in your life.

    ~ John F. Kennedy quotes

    Famous Quotes on: John F. Kennedy, Life

  • Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.

    ~ Yoda quotes from The Empire Strikes Back

    Self-Development Quotes on: Yoda, Try

  • We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are.

    ~ Anais Nin quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Attitude, Perception

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Quotes by Topic

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Quotes by Teachers

Ralph Waldo Emerson T. Harv Eker Wallace D. Wattles Walter Russell Susan Jeffers Byron Katie Friedrich Nietzsche Unknown Carlos Castaneda Albert Einstein Seneca Dale Carnegie Henry David Thoreau Mark Twain Paulo Coelho Joseph Campbell Vernon Howard Mevlana Rumi John Eliot, Ph.D. Dan Millman Russell Simmons Kahlil Gibran Stephen R. Covey Wayne Dyer Irish Proverb Timothy Ferriss Roger McDonald William James David Emerald Jim Rohn Abraham Lincoln Leonardo da Vinci Marlo Morgan Epictetus Tony Robbins Eleanor Roosevelt John Wooden Lao-tzu Percy Ross Neal Donald Walsch Walt Disney Leo Buscaglia Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi W. Somerset Maugham Napoleon Bonaparte Andrew Cohen George Washington Walt Whitman Erich Fromm e.e. cummings A Course in Miracles Calvin Coolidge Samuel Johnson Harry Truman Aristotle Tom Peters Connie Zweig Robert Frost Henry Ford Arthur Schopenhauer Luis Villalobos William Shakespeare Sherry Lansing Peter F. Drucker Winston Churchill Donald Trump Neale Donald Walsch Sanskrit Poem The Essene Gospel of Peace Steve Jobs Jean Jacques Rousseau Michael Gelb Krishna Barbara De Angelis St. Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney Og Mandino William Temple Helen Keller Cliff Durfee Albert Camus Louisa May Alcott John Ruskin Henry Ward Beecher Aldous Huxley Sidney J. Harris Sun Tzu Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Plato Hudson Newsletter E.B. White Mary Baker Eddy Maurice Maeterlinck Thoreau Thomas A. Edison Albert Schweitzer Edwin Markham Martin Fraquhar Tupper Donny Deutsch Jacob Bronowski James Russell Lowel Mary Schmich Andre Previn Peter Drucker Ayn Rand Buddha Dr. Deidre Lovecky Heinrich Zimmer Greek Proverb Marcus Aurelius Sean O'Casey David Deida Irving Yalom Thomas Carlyle Dr. Valerie Hunt Tom Robbins Dr. Candace B. Pert Cowper Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Tim Sanders Lou Holtz Henri-Frederic Amiel Robert J. Ringer Dr. David Hawkins Teddy Roosevelt Robert F. Kennedy Frank Herbert Franklin D. Roosevelt Xenocrates Jack Welch Paul Valery Mark Victor Hansen Mother Theresa Samuel Goldwyn Bill Blackman St. Augustine Leo Tolstoy William Jennings Bryan Saint Catherine of Sienna Doug Weed Mark Van Doren Sivananda Buckminster Fuller Confucius Oscar Wilde Ron Popeil Irwin Edman Sydney Smith Bertrand Russell Paul R. Scheele Georges Clemenceau Carl Sandburg

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