Inspirational quotes.
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:-
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Speak from your heart and don't worry about how it's going to be taken and ask with the intention of it doing the highest good for everyone involved.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
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To be a top performer you have to be passionately committed to what you’re doing and insanely confident about your ability to pull it off.
~ John Eliot, Ph.D. quotes from Overachievement: The New Model for Exceptional Performance
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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
~ Lao-tzu quotes from Tao Te Ching
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Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without reason, just like everybody else? You're so serious, so old. Everything's important with you. Everything's great, significant in some way, every minute, even when you keep still. Can't you ever be comfortable--and unimportant?" | Howard Roark: "No."
~ Ayn Rand quotes from The Fountainhead
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