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:-

• Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of study are by no means enough to master a subject but they are enough to understand it. SO for more than 60 years I have kept studying one subject at a time.

  ~ Peter Drucker quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Peter Drucker, Yin, New, Master, Understand, Dying

• If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

  ~ Ray Bradbury quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Business, Love, Friendship, Sin, Intellect, The Way, Jump, Friend, Time, Friends, Cause, Win

• Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

  ~ Maimonides quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Aim, Will, Cause

• The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

  ~ Thomas Edison quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Success, Habit

• Picasso's mother held great ambitions for him when he was a child. She instructed him: If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as Pope." Instead," Picasso quipped, "I became a painter and became a Picasso."

  ~ Picasso quotes from The Gifted Adult; p. 138

  Famous Quotes on: General, Great, Pain

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