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:-

• Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of the facts and evidence.

  ~ John Adams quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Act, Passion

• If you desire a thing, picture it clearly and hold the picture steadily in mid until it becomes a definite thought-form.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

  Self-Development Quotes on: Desire, Great

• To exist is to change; to change is to mature; to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

  ~ Henri Bergson quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Goals

• A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

  ~ Albert Camus quotes

• Look at the word responsibility—“response-ability”—the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.

  ~ Stephen R. Covey quotes from The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People p. 71

  Famous Quotes on: Habit, Responsibility, Stephen R. Covey, Blame, Act, Proactive, The Seven Habits of Highly Effctive People, Choice, People, Values

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