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:-

• If you really want to break from the pack, you have to risk being perceived to be as eccentric as these people. You have to think exception-ally—a LOT!

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

  Motivational Quotes on: Risk, Think, John Eliot, Overachievement, New, Achievement, People

• The Gods too are fond of a joke.

  ~ Aristotle Onassis quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: God, Aristotle

• Why choose to be right instead of happy when there is no way to be right?

  ~ Hugh Prather quotes from There Is a Place Where You Are Not Alone

  Inspirational Quotes on: Right, Happy

• Wisdom is the essential basis of greatness.

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

  Famous Quotes on: Wisdom, Greatness, Great

• Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

  ~ Dorothy Parker quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love

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