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:-

• Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk.

  ~ Richard Koch quotes from The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Success by Achieving More with Less

  Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Time Management

• The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him--and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.

  ~ J. Paul Getty quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Habit, Business, Success, Desire, Sin, Act, Appreciate, Practice, Achieve

• One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes from Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Growth

• There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Tales of Power

  Famous Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Warrior

• knowledge isn’t power until it is applied

  ~ Dale Carnegie quotes

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