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:-

• About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own filed and felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter.

  ~ Ayn Rand quotes from The Fountainhead

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Sin, Devo, Ayn Rand, Kind, Path, Work, Mastery, Passion, The Fountainhead, Master, Friend, Devotion, Simple

• The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

  ~ Herbert Spencer quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Act, Great, Education, Edge, Knowledge

• If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall!

  ~ T. Harv Eker quotes from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

  Famous Quotes on: Secret, Mind

• Know thyself.

  ~ Socrates quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Self-awareness, Reflection

• Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.

  ~ Thomas A. Edison quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Failure, Fail

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