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:-

• You cannot attain mastery by patterning yourself after another or by following custom or tradition. Sheep do that. Masters and leaders never do.

  ~ Roger McDonald quotes from Message of a Master

  Inspirational Quotes on: Follow, Mastery, Master, Leader, Win

• The master said, Quietly to store up knowledge in my mind, to learn without flagging, to teach without growing weary, these present me with no difficulties.

  ~ Confucius quotes from The Analects

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Learning, Knowledge, Win

• Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to achieve, you can depend upon its automatic guidance system to take you to that goal much better than "you" ever could by conscious thought. "You" supply the goal by thinking in terms of end results. Your automatic mechanism then supplies the means whereby.

  ~ Maxwell Maltz quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Goals, Think, Thinking, Better, Results, Lies, Dance, Give, Thought, Achieve, Creative

• What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Communication

• Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway.

  ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Individuality

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