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 law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so.

  ~ Thomas Troward quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: War, Sin, Skin, Discover

• The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

  ~ John W. Gardner quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Action, Excellence | Areté, Humble

• The secret to getting my wife to be less inhibited had more to do with me than her. It wasn't until I started listening to what she wanted outside the bedroom that changes happened inside the bedroom. I needed to show that I loved her by talking to her and treating her as my equal in all aspects of life. Once she became secure and felt deeply loved by me, all her inhibitions disappeared. Damn, I wish I had figured that out sooner.

  ~ Danny G. quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Change, Secret, Bedroom, Life

• Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

  ~ Dr. Samuel Johnson quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Success, Sin, Samuel Johnson, New, Life

• Let your thoughts be ruled by principle, and then live up to your thoughts.

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

  Self-Development Quotes on: Thoughts, Live, Great

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