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:-

• To realize your true nature, you must wait for the right moment and the right conditions. When the time comes, you are awakened as if from a dream. You understand that what you have found is your own and doesn't come from anywhere outside.

  ~ Buddhist Sutra quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Dream, Nature, Understand, Buddhist, Time, Right, Moment

• 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

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

• What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Self-Reliance

  Self-Development Quotes on: Think, Greatness, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Act, Emerson, Intellect, Great, Life, Self-reliance, People, Serve

• You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don’t, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and depression—which is your clue that something is not working as it could. You, like all of us, deserve everything that is wonderful and exciting in life. And those feelings emerge only when you get in touch with your powerful self.

  ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

  Motivational Quotes on: Fear, Experience, Depression, Persona, Power, Work, Life, Feelings, Helplessness, Feel, Serve, Exciting

• Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

  ~ George Bernard Shaw quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Responsibility, George Bernard Shaw

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