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:-

• ""You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead""

  ~ Ayn Rand quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action

• So let’s be content to live the only time we can possibly live: from now until bedtime. “Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, from now until nightfall,” wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. “Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.”

  ~ Dale Carnegie quotes

• If you really want to find out what you're capable of, you cannot put limits on yourself, and you definitely cannot be cautious.

  ~ John Eliot, Ph.D. quotes from Overachievement: The New Model for Exceptional Performance

  Inspirational Quotes on: John Eliot, Overachievement, New, Achievement

• In the course of heir careers in the American schools of today, most students take hundreds, if not thousands, of tests. They develop skill to a highly calibrated degree in an exercise that will essentially become useless immediately after their last day in school.

  ~ Howard Gardner quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: War, Howard Gardner, Careers, Exercise, Student, Skill, Career

• Legendary violinist Isaac Stern was once confronted by a middle-aged woman after a concert. She gushed, "Oh, Id' give my life to play like you!" "Lady," Stern said acidly, "that I did!"

  ~ Unknown quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Unknown, Life, Give

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