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:-

• You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

  ~ Ayn Rand quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Goals

• "For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases or preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues...This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended."

  ~ Aristotle quotes from The Nicomachean Ethics

  Famous Quotes on: Action, Temperance, Serve

• Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

  ~ Andrew Cohen quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Andrew Cohen, Enlightenment, Change

• The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

  ~ William James quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Attitude, Change, William James, Live, Great, Mind, Discover

• The single most important thing you can do in business is to be yourself.

  ~ Sherry Lansing quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Business

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