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:-

• Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Motivational Quotes on: Self-awareness, Reflection, People

• Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from A Separate Reality

  Famous Quotes on: Attitude, Non-attachment, Warrior

• Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation.

  ~ Krishna quotes

• That outgrowth of arrogance comes at a price: some people don’t like is. I take responsibility for that.

  ~ Donny Deutsch quotes from Often Wrong Never in Doubt

  Inspirational Quotes on: Responsibility, Growth, People

• I have discovered that I cannot enhance anybody’s performance without getting them not only to live with the butterflies that come with high-pressure jobs but to embrace that kind of physical response, enjoy it, get into it. That’s the first real ticket to being a performer who thinks exceptionally.

  ~ John Eliot, Ph.D. quotes from Overachievement: The New Model for Exceptional Performance

  Self-Development Quotes on: Think, Live, John Eliot, Overachievement, Jobs, Kind, New, Body, Achievement, Lies, Discover, Joy

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