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:-

• ...in the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: 'Who do we intend to be?' Not 'What are we going to do?' but 'Who do we intend to be?'"

  ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Good Business

  Motivational Quotes on: Business, Leadership, Management, Sin, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Questions, Zen, Good, Leader

• A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

  ~ Anthony de Mello quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Dance, Music, Within, Anthony De Mello

• In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplainable… The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

  ~ John Steinbeck quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Doing, World, Now, Believe

• Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action

• Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be.

  ~ Erich Fromm quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Best, Life, Potential, Erich Fromm

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