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:-

• The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

  ~ William Shakespeare quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Wise

• We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizations of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime.

  ~ Herbert Otto quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Action, Live, Act, Adventure, Life, Actualization, Potential, Exciting

• It’s amazing how someone’s IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.

  ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

  Motivational Quotes on: Responsibility, Iq, Work, Trust, Rust, Give

• "For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases or preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues...This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended."

  ~ Aristotle quotes from The Nicomachean Ethics

  Motivational Quotes on: Action, Temperance, Serve

• In vain have I struggled, it will not do. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

  ~ Mr. Darcy quotes from Pride and Prejudice

  Famous Quotes on: Love, Struggle, Pride, Will

More Random Quotes

Quotes by Topic

Accomplishment Achieve Act Act I Acting Action Adventure Alarm Clocks Ananda Appreciation Audio Awakening Bad Be You Believe Blood Brain Break Breath Breathing Buddhism Buddhist Burning Camus Certainty Character Clutter Commitment Consistency Contribution Criticize Cup Dare Death Decide Deeds Demand Depression Doing Dying Eastern Ego Emphasize Enlightenment Envy Evolutionary Enlightenment Exceptional Expect Fail Faith Feelings Feminine Fire Fly Focus Forest Forgive Fruitarian Fulfillment Future Generous Give Growth Healing Health Hope Horizon Humble Idea Ideal Identity Impossible Independence Inquiry Insanity Inspirational Inspire Integrate Integrity Intimacy Journey Kind Kindness Leadership Life Luck Management Master Nature Now Obey Obstacle Overload Past Patience Perception Perfection Permanence Personal History Poetry Poor Possibilities Power Power Thinking Prayer Pride Principles Problems Projections Purpose Question Questions Rapture Reason Receive Rent Responsibility Results Rich Ritual Roman Sat Self-reliance Serve Shame Spirit Spirituality Stages of Development States States Vs. Stages Stoicism Stretch Student Suffer Suffering Support Syntropy Takers Talent Teach Teacher Time Understand Universe Values Victory Water Withholding Yes Yin

Quotes by Teachers

Ralph Waldo Emerson Unknown T. Harv Eker Byron Katie Wallace D. Wattles Susan Jeffers Mevlana Rumi Walter Russell Albert Einstein Seneca Napoleon Hill Paulo Coelho Carlos Castaneda Mark Twain Kahlil Gibran Dan Millman Benjamin Franklin Oscar Wilde Timothy Ferriss William Shakespeare Andrew Cohen Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Ayn Rand Dale Carnegie Joseph Campbell Donny Deutsch Robert Cooper Friedrich Nietzsche Wayne Dyer Tony Robbins Krishna Buddha Lao-tzu Henry David Thoreau Winston Churchill Aristotle Ernest Holmes Connie Zweig Anais Nin Abraham Maslow Thomas Jefferson Brian Tracy Morihei Ueshiba Chinese Proverb Luis Villalobos Samuel Johnson Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Deepak Chopra Anonymous Vernon Howard David Emerald Bodhidharma Mother Theresa Abraham Lincoln John J. McCloy Barbara Kingsolver Colin Wilson Gandhi Max Lucado Henry Ward Beecher Levell Edwards Eric Hoffer Cicero Gertrude Stein Steve Pavlina Wilhelm Stekel Yo Ki Dr. Alexis Carrel Jonathan Winters Bruce Lee Will Rogers Nadia Boulanger Robin Sharma Carl Sagan Cowper Arthur L. Williams Edward Gibbon Anthony de Mello Michelangelo Angelina Jolie Stephen Jay Gould The Emerald Tablets of Thoth Neal Donald Walsch Blood of the Martyr 50 Cent T.S. Elliot Elbert Hubbard Bob Nardelli Eleanor Roosevelt Mohandas Gandhi Sri Aurobindo Charles Schwab Paramahansa Yogananda Paul Hogan Thich Nhat Hanh Jesus Walt Disney Benjamin Disraeli Augustine Jim Rohn Malcolm Forbes Don Byas Henry James Gretta Brooker Palmer Elizabeth Berg Gail Sheehy Dee Hock Virginia Satir Colin Powell Frank Tibolt St Augustine John W. Newbern Brent Kessel Ann Landers Irving Yalom W. Somerset Maugham Gay & Katie Hendricks Swahili proverb Aldous Huxley John Adams Oprah David Henry Thoreau Peter F. Drucker Christopher Morley Shunryu Suzuki Calvin Coolidge Stewart B. Johnson Sherry Lansing Tawni O'Dell Thomas Troward Og Mandino Robert Goizueta Viktor E. Frankl Irish Proverb Bob Proctor Alice Miller Woodrow Wilson Stephen R. Covey John Shedd Rosabeth Moss Cantor Elizabeth Kubler Ross Theodore Roosevelt Robert T. Kiyosaki Miguel de Cervantes Nelson Mandela Warren Zevon Michel Eyquem de Montaigne The Bible William James Neale Donald Walsch Horace