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:-

• Ships in harbor are safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

  ~ John Shedd quotes

• If you want reality to be different than what it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

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• Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.

  ~ Victor Hugo quotes

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• We tend to get what we expect.

  ~ Norman Vincent Peale quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Norman Vincent Peale, Expect

• Genuine effort is success.

  ~ Vernon Howard quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Success, War, Effort, Vernon Howard

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