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:-

• Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

  ~ William Faulkner quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage

• Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source.

  ~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance

  Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Communication

• All men seek one goal: success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal--a goal, an objective. Second have the necessary means to achieve your ends--wisdom, money, material and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

  ~ Aristotle quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Success, Goal, Happiness, Creativity, Vision, Purpose, Ideal, Wisdom

• Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.

  ~ Benjamin Franklin quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Action, Time Management, Life

• I'm so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken.

  ~ Benjamin Zander quotes from The Art of Possibility

  Self-Development Quotes on: Live, Heart, Great, Possibility, Music

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