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:-

• Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.

  ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

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• Power is what they want, not candy—power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Conduct of Life

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• I believe negative thinking is like having measles of the mind. Instead of itching, you get bitching; instead of scratching, you get bashing; instead of irritation, you get frustration. Now, do you really want to be close to people like that?

  ~ T. Harv Eker quotes from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

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• Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness…she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Philosopher, Happiness, Doubt

• If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you’re willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.

  ~ T. Harv Eker quotes from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

  Motivational Quotes on: Secret, Life, Mind, Will

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