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

• People who refuse to take risks live with a feeling of dread that is far more severe than what they would feel if they took the risks necessary to make them less helpless—only they don’t know it!

  ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

  Famous Quotes on: Fear, Risk, Live, Now, Feel, People

• No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.

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

  Inspirational Quotes on: Great

• You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Think, Eleanor Roosevelt

• Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.

  ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Good Business

  Motivational Quotes on: Business, Happiness, Sin, Viktor Frankl, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Zen, Work, Good, Great, Consequence, Happy

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