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:-

• How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Famous Quotes on: Action, Habit, Honor

• In the course of heir careers in the American schools of today, most students take hundreds, if not thousands, of tests. They develop skill to a highly calibrated degree in an exercise that will essentially become useless immediately after their last day in school.

  ~ Howard Gardner quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: War, Howard Gardner, Careers, Exercise, Student, Skill, Career

• The heart has its reasons which reasons know not of.

  ~ Pascal quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Heart, Reason

• The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Tales of Power

  Self-Development Quotes on: Carlos Castaneda, Power, Persist

• I never let the thought of failure enter my mind. My knowledge of my unity with the Universal One and the fact that I must do this thing, and the inspired belief I should do it as a demonstration of my belief in man’s unlimited power, made me ignore the difficulties that lay in the way.

  ~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe

  Famous Quotes on: Belief, Failure, Secret, Act, Power, Mind, The Way, Edge, Fail, Universe, Knowledge

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