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 single most important thing you can do in business is to be yourself.

  ~ Sherry Lansing quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Business

• The characteristic of genuine heroism, is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Heroism

  Motivational Quotes on: Character, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Act, Emerson, Great, Hero, Persist, Try, Weak, Heroism

• If it is in the highest good for all life everywhere…

  ~ Marlo Morgan quotes from Mutant Message from Down Under

  Motivational Quotes on: Good, Life

• Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Friedrich Nietzsche, Live, Emerson, Nietzsche, Rich

• It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

  ~ Leo Buscaglia quotes from Love

  Motivational Quotes on: Vision, Purpose, Joy

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