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:-

• The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

  ~ Jean de La Bruyere quotes

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• As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.

  ~ Seneca quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Seneca, Good, Mind, Fruit, Rich

• The characteristic of genuine heroism, is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Heroism

  Motivational Quotes on: Character, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Act, Emerson, Great, Hero, Persist, Try, Weak, Heroism

• Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.

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

  Famous Quotes on: Action, Focus

• Cleave a piece of wood, I am there; lift up the stone and you will find me there.

  ~ Jesus quotes from Gospel According to Thomas

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