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:-

• All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's possible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

  ~ Niccolo Machiavelli quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Risk, Acting, Act, Mistake, Suffer, Strength, Latin, Bold, Anger

• We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizations of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime.

  ~ Herbert Otto quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Action, Live, Act, Adventure, Life, Actualization, Potential, Exciting

• A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation…you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery

• There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.

  ~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Perfection

• To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

  ~ Saint Catherine of Sienna quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom

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