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 law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so.

  ~ Thomas Troward quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: War, Sin, Skin, Discover

• Prevent the things you have been doing and you are half-way home."

  ~ FM Alexander quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Doing

• Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure someone's actual or potential intelligence. We had one dimension of mental ability along which we could array everyone... The whole concept has to be challenged; in fact, it has to be replaced.

  ~ Howard Gardner quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: War, Howard Gardner, Intelligence, Act, Potential, Challenge

• Rich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems to make certain that problem doesn’t occur again.

  ~ T. Harv Eker quotes from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

  Self-Development Quotes on: Challenges, Energy, Success, Solution, Secret, Mind, Challenge, Time, Problem, Spend, People, Rich

• The worse a person is the less he feels it.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Famous Quotes on: Self-awareness, Self Concept

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Quotes by Teachers

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