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 seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Attitude, People

• Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity. You can only achieve happiness if you are too busy living your life to notice whether you are happy or not.

  ~ Frank Pittman III quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Happiness, Learn, Sweat, Act, Life, Busy, Achieve, Happy, People

• By leadership, I mean taking complete responsibility for an organization's well-being and growth, and changing it for the better. Real leadership is not about prestige, power or status. It is about responsibility.

  ~ Robert Joss quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Responsibility, Leadership, Growth, Better, Power, Rest, Leader

• Happily achieve instead of achieving to be happy.

  ~ Tony Robbins quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Tony Robbins, Achieve, Happy

• Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do—learn, commit, and do—and learn, commit, and do again.

  ~ Stephen R. Covey quotes from The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

  Inspirational Quotes on: Habit, Learn, Think, War, Sin, Stephen R. Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effctive People, Progress, Commit

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