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:-

• If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

  ~ Carl Sagan quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Create, Universe

• You have that within you which is ever impelling you toward the upward and advancing way; and that impelling something is the divine Principle of Power; you must obey it without question.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

  Self-Development Quotes on: War, Power, Great, Obey, Within

• Details are all that matters; God dwells in these and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right.

  ~ Stephen Jay Gould quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: God, Struggle

• The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of a man.

  ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Goals, Happiness

• It was subtle of God to learn Greek when he wished to become an author – and not to learn it better.

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: God, Learn, Friedrich Nietzsche, Better, Nietzsche, Greek

More Random Quotes

Quotes by Topic

Accept Achieve Action Age Amini Andrew Cohen Appreciate Athletes Attention Attitude Average Awakening Bad Become Blame Blood Break Buddhist Cause Caution Celebrate Certainty Chaos Choice Circumstance Cling Coach Command Commitment Common Opinion Communication Compassion Competence Consciousness Consequence Consistency Contentment Conversations Courage Create Creative Cup Dance Decisions Demand Desire Despair Development Diligence Discover Doubt Doubts Drama Eastern Economy Education Effectiveness Efficiency Emphasize Empowering Empty Energy Enlightenment Ethics Exercise Expect Explore Express Fame Fearless Fly Forgiveness Friends Fruitarian Goal Gold Greatness Greed Guarantee Heat Helplessness Hope Humble Ideal Ignorance Ignorant Imitation Impeccability Insecure Integrate Judgment Latin Laugh Learn Manifesto Mastery Mirror Mistake Moderation Modesty Muscles Mystic Mysticism Nightmare Non-attachment Path Peace Perseverance Persist Persistence Positive Thinking Possibility Principles Priorities Proactive Problems Progress Psychology of Money Question Ready Relationships Rest Right Risk Ritual Rust Schedule Secret Shift Simplicity Sin Society Spirituality Star Wars Stoicism Stretch Strong Suffer Talent Teacher Thank You Trail Universe Victory Vision War Waste Wisdom Worry Yes

Quotes by Teachers

Susan Jeffers T. Harv Eker Byron Katie Ralph Waldo Emerson Unknown Wallace D. Wattles Walter Russell Mevlana Rumi Seneca Confucius James Allen Timothy Ferriss Stephen R. Covey Henry David Thoreau Vernon Howard Wayne Dyer Carlos Castaneda Mark Twain John Eliot, Ph.D. David McCullough Joseph Campbell Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Napoleon Hill Dan Millman William James Friedrich Nietzsche William Shakespeare Albert Einstein Abraham Maslow David Emerald Steve Pavlina Carl Jung Anthony de Mello Andrew Cohen Donny Deutsch Morihei Ueshiba Roger McDonald Paulo Coelho Martin Luther King, Jr. Ayn Rand Benjamin Franklin Franklin D. Roosevelt George Bernard Shaw American Heritage Dictionary Leo Buscaglia Rollo May Benjamin Disraeli A Course in Miracles Robert Cooper Walt Whitman Bodhidharma Buckminster Fuller Krishna Connie Zweig Mitch Albom Marlo Morgan Rene Descartes Marianne Williamson Ann Landers Dalai Lama Deepak Chopra Brian Tracy Lynne McTaggart Abraham Hicks Walt Disney Harry Truman Ralph Cordiner Paul Fussell Dante Alighieri Jack Welch Aristotle Anais Nin Michael Jordan G.K. Chesterton Theodore Roosevelt E.M. Forster Cliff Durfee Frederick Douglas Nikola Tesla Victor Hugo Harriet Beecher Stowe Anton Checkhov Ken Wilber Mike Murdock Rudyard Kipling Arthur C. Clarke Henri Bergson Shimon Peres Bill Gates John Greenleaf Whittier Martin Seligman Michelangelo David Mahoney Shirley MacLaine Kent Nerburn John Donne Esther & Jerry Hicks Auguste Rodin Peter Ueberroth Orison Swett Marden Branch Rickey Charles J. Givens Margaret Mead Heinrich Zimmer John Dewey St. Paul Brian Adams Henry S. Haskins Raymond Inmon J. Paul Getty Grandma Moses Thoreau e.e. cummings Ambrose Redmoon Brock Chisholm W. Clement Stone Herman Melville The Bible Ken Auletta Baruch Spinoza Bhagavad-Gita George Chapman Hillel Eric Butterworth The Essene Gospel of Peace Swami Chinmayanada Claudia Black John Wooden Robert Fritz James William Fulbright Napoleon Bonaparte Winston Churchill Henry Ford Greer Garson G.E. Lessing Leonardo da Vinci W.H. Murray Elizabeth Kubler Ross Lao-tzu Apple Computers Martin Fraquhar Tupper Elbert Hubbard Martin Luther King Jr. 50 Cent William E. Hickson Anatole France Thomas Jefferson Arthur Schopenhauer Sally Kempton Daniel Goleman Les Miserables