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:-

• Pay any price to stay in the presence of extraordinary people.

  ~ Mike Murdock quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: People, Extraordinary

• If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, than you are an excellent leader.

  ~ Dolly Parton quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Learn, Dream, Act, Create, Leader

• When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites—to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance—there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from The Teachings of Don Juan

  Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Fear, Defeat

• Be the change you want to see in the world.

  ~ Mahatma Gandhi quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Vision, Purpose

• Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It’s the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They’re not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Self-Development Quotes on: Goals, Love, Truth, Katie, Work, Suffering, Doing, Suffer, Attachment, Peace, Accept, World, Now, Freedom, Right, Effect, Goal, The Work

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