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 greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

  ~ Michelangelo quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Great, Angel

• Great minds ask great questions.

  ~ Michael Gelb quotes from How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Everyday

  Famous Quotes on: Action, Excellence | Areté

• Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't.

  ~ Richard Bach quotes from Jonathon Livingston Seagull

  Famous Quotes on: Vision, Purpose, Life

• Lock yourself up in your room or go out in the woods where you an be alone. When you are alone the universe talks to you in flashes of inspiration.

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

  Self-Development Quotes on: Inspiration, Secret, Universe

• The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

  ~ Rene Descartes quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Wisdom, Learning

More Random Quotes

Quotes by Topic

Abundance Act I Alarm Clocks Amini Ananda Andrew Cohen Anxiety Attention Attitude Authentic Awareness Basketball Be You Beauty Become Bill Russel Bills Blame Bliss Blood Body Breathing Buddhist Burning Cherish Chit Circumstance Clarity Communication Consciousness Courage Dance Dark Death Decide Defeat Discipline Doing Doubt Dreams Earth Ecstasy Edge Efficiency Emotion Emotional Intelligence Empowering Empty Enjoy Enthusiasm Entrepreneur Evolution Examine Expand Fail Fame Feminine Flow Friends Friendship General Give Giving Goal Good Greatness Greed Habit Habits Hard Work Healing Helplessness History Hope Humility Imitation Independence Insanity Inspirational Integral Integrate Intellect Intelligence Intensity Kabbalah Knowledge Language Laughter Leadership Meditation Million Dollars Modesty Moment Money Music Mystic New Opinion Opportunity Optimist Outcome Overload Patience Peace People Perfect Personally Poetry Polish Poor Positive Thinking Possibilities Possibility Poverty Power Thinking Priorities Problem Problems Prosperity Psychology of Money Rapture Reading Reason Receiving Right Rules Scream Security Serve Sex Shine Should Simplicity Skin Society Soul Student Success Superior Symphony Tags Thought Thoughts Time Management Trail Values Vice Water Weakness Wisdom

Quotes by Teachers

Susan Jeffers T. Harv Eker Albert Einstein Byron Katie Timothy Ferriss Friedrich Nietzsche Unknown Wallace D. Wattles Walter Russell Ralph Waldo Emerson James Allen Seneca Mevlana Rumi Carlos Castaneda Dan Millman Wayne Dyer Russell Simmons Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Paulo Coelho Oscar Wilde William James William Shakespeare Jim Rohn Henry David Thoreau George Bernard Shaw Mark Twain John F. Kennedy Epictetus Benjamin Franklin Joseph Campbell Buddha Leo Buscaglia Marlo Morgan Donny Deutsch Tony Robbins Kahlil Gibran Roger McDonald Eric Butterworth Dalai Lama Winston Churchill Morihei Ueshiba Thomas Edison Robert Cooper Anonymous Aristotle Epicurus Stephen R. Covey J. Paul Getty Robin Sharma Abraham Maslow Leonardo da Vinci Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Arthur Schopenhauer Antoine de Saint-Exupery Theodore Roosevelt Ayn Rand Abraham Lincoln Gandhi Esther & Jerry Hicks David Emerald Confucius Ray Bradbury Bertrand Russell Dr. David Hawkins Michelangelo Tom J. Connelly Paul "Bear" Bryant Michael Gelb Plautus Tom Peters Nigerian Proverb Stewart B. Johnson John Donne Andrew Cohen Walt Disney Mae West Theodore Geisel Jack Nicklaus Will Rogers Jean Jacques Rousseau Eleanor Roosevelt Thea Alexander William Faulkner Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Cowper Samuel Goldwyn Peter Senge Rene Descartes Yogi Berra Bob Packwood Dan Sullivan Malcolm Forbes Elizabeth Bowen Alexander Graham Bell Gabriel Garcia Marquez Jeanette Winterson Dr. Karl Menninger Hugh Prather Thomas H. Huxley Cliff Durfee Rollo May G.K Chesterton Vimala Thakar Heinrich Zimmer Warren Zevon Erica Jong Krishnamurti Sydney Smith Krishna Ann Landers Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu David McCullough Jimmy Durante Ursala K. Guin Ernest Holmes Wyland Wallace Wattles Renan Mahatma Gandhi David Mahoney Samuel Johnson Carl Sagan Don Fraser Alan Greenspan Pascal Marcus Aurelius Deepak Chopra Aldous Huxley Robert Fulghum Henry Miller Lin Yutang Mother Theresa Brent Kessel C. Day Lewis Terry Laughlin Niccolo Machiavelli Robert H. Schuller Robert Frost Bruce Jenner Elizabeth Kubler Ross Socrates Maya Angelou Peter F. Drucker Alexandre Dumas Ralf W. Sockman Obi-Wan Kenobi Martin Seligman Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Tibolt W.H. Murray Colin Powell