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:-

• There are two types of people--anchors and motors. You want to lose the anchors and get with the motors because the motors are going somewhere and they're having more fun. The anchors will just drag you down.

  ~ Wyland quotes

  Famous Quotes on: People

• We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.

  ~ Heraclitus quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Heraclitus, Achieve

• “Begin with the end in mind” is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things.

  ~ Stephen R. Covey quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Stephen R. Covey, Create, Mind

• Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand

  ~ Thomas Carlyle quotes

• If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

  ~ Benjamin Franklin quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Love, Benjamin Franklin

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