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:-

• Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

  ~ Aristotle quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Learn, Education

• Pay no attention to what a critic says. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

  ~ Jean Sibelius quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Courage, Critics, Honor

• When you give your subsconscious the message “I can’t,” your subconscious really believes you and registers on its computer: WEAK… WEAK… WEAK…

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

  Self-Development Quotes on: Fear, Give, Age, Believe, Feel, Weak

• We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope we get to death without being badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams.

  ~ Bob Proctor quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Goals, Death, Bob Proctor, Live, Dreams, Dream, Life, Bad

• Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? "What sinews are those?" -- A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.

  ~ Epictetus quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Philosopher, Power

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