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 average person puts only 25% of his energy into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

  ~ Andrew Carnegie quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Impeccability

• Money is central to our lives. Yet money is not of central importance. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the lasting values that make life worth living.

  ~ Kent Nerburn quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Live, Life, Money, Values

• Ask and you shall receive. You must, yourself, do the asking…Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.

  ~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe

  Motivational Quotes on: Genius, Secret, Best, Skin, Universe, Receive

• As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.

  ~ Buddha quotes from The Dhammapada

  Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Wise

• Do you know anyone who hasn’t changed his mind? This door was a tree, then it will be firewood for someone, then it will return to air and earth. We’re all like that, constantly changing. It’s simply honest to report that you’ve changed your mind when you have. When you’re afraid of what people will think if you speak honestly, that’s where you become confused.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Self-Development Quotes on: Change, Think, Katie, Mind, Fire, Now, Will, Become, Earth, People

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