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 worse a person is the less he feels it.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Famous Quotes on: Self-awareness, Self Concept

• Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Heroism

  Famous Quotes on: Greatness, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Great, Hero

• Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work.

  ~ Daniel Burnham quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Vision

• He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'dib knew that every experience carries a lesson.

  ~ Frank Herbert quotes from Dune

  Motivational Quotes on: Experience, Learn, Learning, Frank Herbert, New, Training, Trust, Rust, Believe, People

• Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!

  ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

  Famous Quotes on: Work

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