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 beginning is half of every action.

  ~ Greek Proverb quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Action, Act, Greek, Beginning

• Well, I have considered myself to be very fortunate in that I have been able to do mostly only that which my inner self told me to do… I am also aware that I do receive much criticism from the outside world for what I do and some people actually get angry at me. But this does not really touch me because I feel that these people do not live in he same world as do I.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes from The Private Albert Einstein; p. 110

  Self-Development Quotes on: War, Albert Einstein, Live, Act, Receive, People

• Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

  ~ William James quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: William James, Act

• A gauge for wisdom.- The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Wisdom

• The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so.

  ~ Thomas Troward quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: War, Sin, Skin, Discover

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