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:-

• Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

  ~ John F. Kennedy quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Change, John F. Kennedy, Future, Past, Life

• I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else. And we were about three months late in filing a fictitious business name so I threatened to call the company Apple Computer unless someone suggested a more interesting name by five o'clock that day. Hoping to stimulate creativity. And it stuck. And that's why we're called Apple.

  ~ Steve Jobs quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Apple, Fruitarian, Fruit, Business, Genius

• If you desire a thing, picture it clearly and hold the picture steadily in mid until it becomes a definite thought-form.

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

  Motivational Quotes on: Desire, Great

• Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Albert Einstein, Act, Life, Attraction

• The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work—declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Conduct of Life

  Famous Quotes on: Think, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Create, Work, Great, Life, Society, Serve

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