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:-

• The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work—declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Conduct of Life

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• If you use these principles wisely and intelligently, there can be no uncertainty as to the outcome of any endeavor, and no limit to your possibilities.

  ~ Roger McDonald quotes from Message of a Master

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• The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

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• Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.

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

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• If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

  ~ Johann Wolfgang von-Goethe quotes

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