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 torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided.

  ~ Napoleon Bonaparte quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Attitude, Worry, Caution

• I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

  ~ Thomas Jefferson quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Excellence | Areté

• A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Journey to Ixtlan

  Famous Quotes on: Attitude, Non-attachment, Warrior

• Faith is expectancy. You do not receive what you want; you do not receive what you pray for, not even what you say you have faith in. You will always receive what you actually expect.

  ~ Eric Butterworth quotes

• A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.

  ~ Lisa Kirk quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Brilliant

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