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 purpose for the passage of time is to allow a person to become better, wiser, to express more and more of one’s beingness.

  ~ Marlo Morgan quotes from Mutant Message from Down Under

  Motivational Quotes on: Purpose, Better, Express, Wise

• I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.

  ~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Confidence

• I am talking about the power within the self. This means power over your perceptions of the world, power over how you react to situations in your life, power to do what is necessary for your own self-growth, power to create joy and satisfaction in your life, power to act, and power to love.

  ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

  Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Perception, Fear, Growth, Love, Act, Power, Create, Life, Within, Joy, World, Feel

• Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.

  ~ Thomas A. Edison quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Failure, Fail

• It’s easy to act as if you are a weathervane, always changing your beliefs and words, trying to please everyone around you. But we were born to be lighthouses, not weathervanes.

  ~ Robert Cooper quotes from The Other 90%: How to Unlock Your Vast Untapped Potential for Leadership & Life

  Self-Development Quotes on: Belief, Leadership, Act, Yin, Life, Potential, Light, Try

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