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:-

• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

  ~ Barack Obama quotes

• Focus on being productive instead of busy.

  ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

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• The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.

  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt quotes from This is my story"; p. 259-260

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• Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions that we do in our own?

  ~ Brigham Young quotes

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• Study anyone who's great, and you'll find that they apprenticed to a master, or several masters. Therefore, if you want to achieve greatness, renown, and superlative success, you must apprentice to a master.

  ~ Robert Allen quotes

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