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 only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

  ~ Og Mandino quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Love, Success, Service

• If I think that someone else is causing my problem, I’m insane.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Famous Quotes on: Think, Sin, Katie, Problem

• Elevated levels of confidence are omnipresent among history’s greatest overachievers. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous men in the world even before he signed the Declaration of Independence once lamented about humility, “I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue.”

  ~ John Eliot, Ph.D. quotes from Overachievement: The New Model for Exceptional Performance

  Famous Quotes on: Confidence, Humility, Success, Benjamin Franklin, John Eliot, Overachievement, New, Great, Virtue, Achievement, Independence, Achieve, History

• This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

  ~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance

  Famous Quotes on: Courage, Growth

• To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership—not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.

  ~ Ronald Reagan quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Vision, Success, Leadership, Leader

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