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:
True nobility isn’t about being better than someone else. It’s about being better than you used to be.
~ Wayne Dyer Quotes
Self-Development Quotes on:
Wayne Dyer, Better
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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
~ Emile Chartier Quotes
Motivational Quotes on:
Idea, Anger
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself… Serve and thou shall be served.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational Quotes on:
Sin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Life, Compensation, Try, Serve
Now I know that when I am angry at my husband, I simply have to ask myself, “What am I not doing in my life that I could be doing that I am blaming him for not doing for me?”
~ Susan Jeffers Quotes
from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway
Famous Quotes on:
Fear, Life, Doing, Now, Feel
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
~ Teddy Roosevelt Quotes
Self-Development Quotes on:
Courage, Challenges, Joy, Failure, Poor, Defeat, Win
Quotes by Topic
Achieve Act I Acting Andrew Cohen Athlete Attraction Audio Authentic Authentic Self Bad Bill Russel Bills Buddhism Buddhist Cause Celebrate Character Cherish Clarity Coach Communication Competence Competition Consistency Control Courage Coward Create Creativity Creator Criticize Critics Dare Decide Defeat Development Diligence Discover Divine Within Doing Dream Earth Eastern Economy Ecstasy Emphasize Empty Endure Energy Enlightenment Envy Evil Evolution Expect Failing Failure Fame Feminine Financial Flow Fly Follow Forgiveness General Generous Genius Gift Give Giving Hard Work Heroism Honesty Ignorance Impossible Inquiry Insecure Inspire Integrity Intention Iq Jobs Journal Judgment Kindness Knowledge Language Laugh Love Mastery Meaningful Mirror Moderation Passion Past Peace Peaceful Warrior Perfect Perfection Permanence Perseverance Persist Philosopher Plans Polish Power Power Thinking Powerlesness Pride Problem Progress Projections Purpose Questions Reason Receive Relationships Rest Ritual Roadmap Secret Shame Simple Smart Spend Spiritual Stages of Development Stoicism Stop Strive Stupid Suffer Teach Teacher The Work Thoughts Time Management Training Trust Try Uncertainty Understand Values Vice Visualization Vitality War Water Win World Yes
Quotes by Teacher
Abraham Maslow Albert Einstein Andrew Carnegie Anne Frank Annie Dillard Arthur C. Clarke Barack Obama Barbara De Angelis Ben Stein Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Franklin Bertolt Brecht Brian Weir Buckminster Fuller Buddha Byron Katie Carl Jung Carlos Castaneda Charles Kingsley Chinese Proverb Claude Bernard Colin Wilson Connie Zweig Dalai Lama Dale Carnegie Dale Dauten Dan Millman Daniel Cohen Dante Dave Barry David Emerald David Kekich David Mahoney David Starr Jordan Don Byas Donna Cardillo, R.N. Donny Deutsch Dorothy Parker Dr. Petrie Emile Zola Ernest Holmes Esther & Jerry Hicks Francis Bacon Frank Herbert Friedrich Nietzsche Galileo Galilei General George S. Patton George Bernard Shaw George Washington George Washington Carver Georgia O'Keeffe Goethe Greek Proverb Hafez Harry Truman Helen Keller Henry Ford Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Irish Proverb Italian Proverb James Allen Joe Greene Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von-Goethe John Assaraf John Donne John Eliot, Ph.D. John F. Kennedy John Keats John Shedd José Silva and Burt Goldman Joseph Campbell Joyce Spizer Kahlil Gibran Krishna La Rochefoucauld Levell Edwards Lilly Tomlin Mahatma Gandhi Mark Twain Marlene Dietrich Marlo Morgan Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Rutte Mary Baker Eddy Mary-Elaine Jacobsen Maya Angelou Mevlana Rumi Michael Jordan Michelangelo Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Morihei Ueshiba Morpheus Mother Teresa Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon Hill Neal Donald Walsch Niels Bohr Nikola Tesla Oscar Wilde Patty Hansen Paul Saffo Paulo Coelho Peter Drucker Peter F. Drucker Peter Senge Plato Ralph Waldo Emerson Rene Descartes Reverend Ike Robert Cooper Robert Frost Robert T. Kiyosaki Russell Simmons Samuel Goldwyn Sanskrit Poem Seneca Shimon Peres Shirley MacLaine Socrates St. Augustine St. Francis of Assisi Stephen R. Covey Steve Pavlina Sun Tzu Susan Jeffers T. Harv Eker The Dalai Lama Theodore Geisel Thich Nhat Hanh Thomas A. Edison Thomas Edison Thomas Troward Timothy Ferriss Tony Robbins Unknown Vernon Howard Victor Hugo Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) Vivekananda Voltaire Wallace D. Wattles Walter Anderson Walter Russell Wayne Dyer William Connor Magee William Faulkner William James William Shakespeare Winston Churchill Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel
