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 isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

  ~ Arnold Glascow quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Success, Fire

• The first of all qualities of a general is courage.

  ~ David McCullough quotes from 1776

  Self-Development Quotes on: General, Courage

• The greatest happiness that you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

  ~ William Saroyan quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Happiness, Great, Now, Will, Win

• You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don’t, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and depression—which is your clue that something is not working as it could. You, like all of us, deserve everything that is wonderful and exciting in life. And those feelings emerge only when you get in touch with your powerful self.

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

  Self-Development Quotes on: Fear, Experience, Depression, Persona, Power, Work, Life, Feelings, Helplessness, Feel, Serve, Exciting

• Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

  ~ Sun Tzu quotes

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