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:-

• Tzu-kung asked, 'Is there a single word which can be a guide to conduct throughout one's life?' The Master said, 'It is perhaps the word 'shu.' Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

  ~ Confucius quotes from The Analects

  Famous Quotes on: Love, The Golden Rule, Life

• Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back to you.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Motivational Quotes on: Think, Thinking, Katie, Age, Mirror

• When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn’t rocket science.

  ~ Donny Deutsch quotes from Often Wrong Never in Doubt

  Self-Development Quotes on: Business, Sin

• If you take risks, you may fail. But if you don't take risks, you will surely fail. The greatest risk of all is to do nothing.

  ~ Robert Goizueta quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Courage

• To be everywhere is to be nowhere.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Motivational Quotes on: Action, Focus

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