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:-

• A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

  ~ Unknown quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Unknown, Now

• The wise man…lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Simplicity, Wise

• But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.

  ~ Nikola Tesla quotes from Autobiography

  Self-Development Quotes on: Truth, Autobiography, Effort, Edge, Knowledge, Doubt

• We are what we think. All that we are arises from our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.

  ~ Buddha quotes

• I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

  ~ Henry Ward Breecher quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, War, New

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Quotes by Teachers

Ralph Waldo Emerson T. Harv Eker Walter Russell Wayne Dyer Unknown Carlos Castaneda Wallace D. Wattles Timothy Ferriss Susan Jeffers Dan Millman Byron Katie Seneca Mark Twain Joseph Campbell Winston Churchill Mevlana Rumi Napoleon Hill John Eliot, Ph.D. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Confucius William James Irish Proverb Samuel Johnson Robin Sharma Russell Simmons Leo Buscaglia Paulo Coelho William Shakespeare Roger McDonald David McCullough Neale Donald Walsch Thomas Jefferson Tony Robbins Marlo Morgan Anthony de Mello Morihei Ueshiba Friedrich Nietzsche David Emerald Henry David Thoreau Jesus Aristotle Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Ward Beecher Dalai Lama Anais Nin Franklin D. Roosevelt Viktor Frankl Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Dale Carnegie Ayn Rand Abraham Maslow Rollo May Leonardo da Vinci Walt Disney Connie Zweig Andrew Carnegie Benjamin Franklin Epictetus Luis Villalobos Jean Jacques Rousseau John F. Kennedy Thomas Edison Vida D. Scudder George Santayana Benjamin Disraeli Linus Pauling John Steinbeck Malcolm Forbes George Washington H. Ross Perot Teddy Roosevelt Don Miguel Ruiz Jon Kabat-Zinn Eric Hoffer Kemmons Wilson Jack Kinder Pubilius Syrus William Jennings Bryan Fanny Burney Stan Dale Ray Bradbury Shawn Phillips Claude Bernard Jimi Hendrix Denzel Washington Anthony Robbins Tom Peters Old New York Proverb James Allen Rainer Maria Rilke Dagmar O'Connor Barbara Kingsolver Dwight D. Eisenhower Proverb Ekhart Tolle Sydney Smith Vince Lombardi Roger Staubach Steve Pavlina Branch Rickey Michael McGriffy M.D. Tirukural Earl G. Graves Ali Warren Buffett G.E. Lessing Arthur C. Clarke Freud Pietro Aretino Dr. Herbert Benson Bruce Lee Kahlil Gibran Daniel Goleman Steven Wright R. Buckminster Fuller Mahatma Gandhi Michael S. Josephson Percy Ross Thomas Paine Frank Lloyd Wright Brahma Kumaris Theodore Roosevelt Dr. David Hawkins Anon Isabelle Holland Wilhelm Stekel Vincent Van Gogh Thomas Merton Dr. Seuss B.C. Forbes English Proverb William Blake Author Pierre Corneille Jeff Aubery Alexandre Dumas Alexander Pope George Chapman Calvin Coolidge Heraclitus Christopher Morley Ursala K. Guin Lao-tzu Jake Gaither Joe Greene Elaine Myers Frank Herbert Marianne Williamson Wayne Gretsky John Adams Nancy Mitford