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:-

• Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.

  ~ Martin Seligman quotes from Learned Optimism

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• The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

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

  Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery, Hero

• It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

  ~ Douglas MacArthur quotes

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• The key to keeping your balance is knowing when you've lost it.

  ~ Unknown quotes

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• People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

  ~ George Bernard Shaw quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: George Bernard Shaw, World, Circumstance, Believe, People

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