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:-

• The economic race should not be arranged so everyone arrives at the finish line at the same time but so that everyone starts at the starting line at the same time.

  ~ Milton Friedman quotes

• People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

  ~ George Bernard Shaw quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: George Bernard Shaw, World, Circumstance, Believe, People

• Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do—learn, commit, and do—and learn, commit, and do again.

  ~ Stephen R. Covey quotes from The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

  Motivational Quotes on: Habit, Learn, Think, War, Sin, Stephen R. Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effctive People, Progress, Commit

• Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It wasn't reasoned into him, and it cannot be reasoned out.

  ~ Sydney Smith quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom

• Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Inspirational Quotes on: Self-awareness, Reflection, People

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