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:-

• We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

  ~ Carl Sagan quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Sin, The Moment, History

• The only thing to fear is fear itself.

  ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Fear

• The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

  ~ Herbert Spencer quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Act, Great, Education, Edge, Knowledge

• Nothing has meaning except for the meaning we give it.

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

  Famous Quotes on: Secret, Mind, Give

• I will obey my soul and be true to that within me which is highest.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

  Motivational Quotes on: Great, Soul, Obey, Within

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Quotes by Teachers

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