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:-

• Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

  ~ Confucius quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Change, Wise

• We see the essential divinity underlying the whole of the world's process of growth, and the fundamental rightness of helping that immense work forward as best we can in the time we have… The dichotomy between self and others, between responding to others' needs and taking care of one's own disappears, as one acquires the practical wisdom to see the intrinsic legitimacy of both and the relative priority of each.

  ~ John Firman quotes from Dimensions of Growth; p. 117-118

  Self-Development Quotes on: Growth, Wisdom, War, Act, Yin, Work, Best

• A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

  ~ David Gergen quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Vision, Leader, People

• The system is the solution.

  ~ AT&T quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Solution

• Nothing can go wrong in this world but yourself ; and you can go wrong only by getting into the wrong mental attitude.

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

  Famous Quotes on: Attitude, Great

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