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:-

• Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

  ~ Calvin Coolidge quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Calvin Coolidge, Persist, Persistence, Determination

• Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.

  ~ Ramana Maharshi quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Doubt

• I have come to believe that there are only two kinds of experiences in life: those that stem from our Higher Self and those that have something to teach us. We recognize the first as pure joy and the latter as struggle. But they are both perfect. Each time we confront some intense difficulty, we know there is something we haven’t learned yet, and the universe is now giving us the opportunity to learn.

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

  Famous Quotes on: Fear, Teach, Experience, Learn, Struggle, Kind, Life, Giving, Perfect, Universe, Joy, Time, Now, Opportunity, Believe, Feel, Learned

• Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

  ~ Winston Churchill quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Worry, Think, Winston Churchill, Thinking, Yin, Become, Win

• It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Journey to Ixtlan

  Motivational Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery, Power

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