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:-

• Never mistake motion for action.

  ~ Ernest Hemingway quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Motion

• To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

  ~ Benjamin Franklin quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Attitude

• Anything may be betrayed, anyone may be forgiven, but not those who lack the courage of their own greatness.

  ~ Ayn Rand quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Growth

• If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Will, Rich

• If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

  ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love

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