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:-

• I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.

  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Learn, Eleanor Roosevelt, Act, Good, Bad

• In the end, the only people who fail are those who don't try.

  ~ David Viscott quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Fail, Try, People

• Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.

  ~ Jack Nicklaus quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Learn, Game, Fundamentals

•  Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

  ~ Arthur Schopenhauer quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Greatness

• Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

  ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Good Business

  Inspirational Quotes on: Business, Energy, Sin, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Zen, Work, Good, Attention

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