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:-

• He had kept his head, kept his health and his strength, bearing up under a weight of work and worry that only a few could have carried.

  ~ David McCullough quotes from 1776

  Inspirational Quotes on: Worry, Health, Work, Strength

• Your life is a kind of laboratory where you’re constantly experimenting with your own higher knowing, always increasing your capacity to design the life you choose. Human beings must create; it’s hardwired. The question is, are you consciously creating or only sleepwalking through your human life?

  ~ David Emerald quotes from The Power of TED*

  Self-Development Quotes on: Sin, David Emerald, Kind, Power, Create, Sleep, Life, Labor, Win

• The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

  ~ Leonardo da Vinci quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Vision

• Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

  ~ Sophocles quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Act

• If it’s important to you and you want to do it “eventually,” just do it and correct course along the way.

  ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

  Self-Development Quotes on: Work, The Way

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