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:-

• The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

  ~ William Connor Magee quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Courage

• A warrior chooses a path with heart, any path with heart, and follows it; and then he rejoices and laughs. He knows because he sees that his life will be over altogether too soon. He sees that nothing is more important than anything else.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from A Separate Reality

  Self-Development Quotes on: Vision, Purpose, Life, Warrior

• Begin—to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this and thou wilt have finished.

  ~ Decimus Magnus Ausonius quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action

• As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case of leveling the ground, if, though tipping only one basketful, I am going forward, then I shall be making progress.

  ~ Confucius quotes from The Analects

  Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Perseverance

• When an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate.

  ~ Carl Jung quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Carl Jung, Fate

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