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:-

• When you have to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

  ~ William James quotes

  Famous Quotes on: William James, Choice

• What we do in life echoes in eternity.

  ~ Maximus quotes from Gladiator

  Famous Quotes on: Life

• I’ve always managed by walking around. Any CEO or leader who spends the majority of his time in his office is not doing his job.

  ~ Donny Deutsch quotes from Often Wrong Never in Doubt

  Inspirational Quotes on: Doing, Leader

• The Eskimos have 52 words for snow because it is so special to them; there ought to be as many for love.

  ~ Margaret Atwood quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Now, Cause

• For all their bitching about what’s holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they’re being held from.

  ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

  Famous Quotes on: Dreams, Dream, Work, People

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