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:-

• Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Albert Einstein

• Be harsh with yourself at times.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Motivational Quotes on: Self-awareness, Reflection

• Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.

  ~ Vernon Howard quotes from The Power of Your Supermind

  Self-Development Quotes on: War, Flow, Power, Mind, Vernon Howard, The Power of Your Supermind, Persist, Persistence

• But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Heroism

  Motivational Quotes on: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Virtue, Hero, Edge, Try, Demand

• There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.

  ~ J. Paul Getty quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Act

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