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:-

• People are smarter than you think. Give them a chance to prove themselves.

  ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

  Famous Quotes on: Think, Work, Give, People, Smart

• Without struggle, there is no progress.

  ~ Frederick Douglas quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Growth

• I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community…and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

  ~ George Bernard Shaw quotes

  Famous Quotes on: George Bernard Shaw, Live, Future, Work, Life, Torch, Right, Opinion, Moment

• Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure someone's actual or potential intelligence. We had one dimension of mental ability along which we could array everyone... The whole concept has to be challenged; in fact, it has to be replaced.

  ~ Howard Gardner quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: War, Howard Gardner, Intelligence, Act, Potential, Challenge

• What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

  ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery quotes

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