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:-

• All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

  ~ Benjamin Franklin quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Vision, Future

• The man of God never rejoices because he is joy itself.

  ~ Meister Eckhart quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: God, Meister Eckhart, Joy

• ...perhaps the most distinguishing trait of visionary leaders is that they believe in a goal that benefits not only themselves, but others as well. It is such vision that attracts the psychic energy of other people, and makes them willing to work beyond the call of duty for the organization.

  ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Good Business

  Motivational Quotes on: Business, Energy, Vision, Sin, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Zen, Act, Work, Good, Believe, Leader, People

• Nothing will come of nothing.

  ~ William Shakespeare quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Action

• 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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