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:-

• It is worth a fortune to have the habit of looking on the bright side of things.

  ~ Samuel Johnson quotes

• The vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, this you will become.

  ~ James Allen quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Vision, Life

• I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

  ~ Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Attitude, Life, Happiness

• Never check email first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading email as a postponement excuse.

  ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

  Inspirational Quotes on: Sin, Work

• What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

  ~ Epictetus quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Wisdom, Philosopher, Business

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