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:-

• Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

  ~ Mark Twain quotes from Autobiography with Letters, Phelps

  Famous Quotes on: Autobiography, Mark Twain, Life, Age

• Yes, there are times when the gold medal only goes to the winner. But not in the race of life, where the winners are those who are superior not to others but to their former selves.

  ~ Robert Cooper quotes from The Other 90%: How to Unlock Your Vast Untapped Potential for Leadership & Life

  Self-Development Quotes on: Leadership, Life, Potential, Gold, Winner, Win

• When you become involved in a bigger energy motivated by the Group Higher Self, you are infused with power and purpose.

  ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

  Self-Development Quotes on: Fear, Energy, Purpose, Power, Become, Feel

• Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.

  ~ Yoda quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Action

• The only people without problems are in cemeteries. If you don't have problems, get on your knees and pray.

  ~ Tony Robbins quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Tony Robbins, People

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