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 hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

  ~ George Washington quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom

• Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

  ~ Winston Churchill quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Guarantee

• The average person’s idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.

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

  Motivational Quotes on: Great, Average, Serve

• "The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself."

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Famous Quotes on: Attitude, Perception, Peace

• If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Tales of Power

  Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Effortless effort, Success, Warrior, Effort, Stress

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