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:-

• Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to make things work.

  ~ John Eliot, Ph.D. quotes from Overachievement: The New Model for Exceptional Performance

  Inspirational Quotes on: Confidence, Success, Think, John Eliot, Overachievement, Thinking, New, Work, Achievement, Guarantee

• The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

  ~ Oscar Wilde quotes from A Woman of No Importance, 1894

  Inspirational Quotes on: Life, Body, Soul, Age, Tragedy

• Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

  ~ William James quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: William James, Genius, Habit

• The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles...these are major forms of giving up that are required if one is to travel very far on the journey of life.

  ~ M. Scott Peck quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Love, Life

• Success is the sum of all small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

  ~ Robert Collier quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Success, Effort

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