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:-

• Persecutors, like Victims, act out of fear. The may seem fearless, but actually Persecutors are almost always former Victims.

  ~ David Emerald quotes from The Power of TED*

  Inspirational Quotes on: Fear, David Emerald, Act, Power, Fearless, Victim

• Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I shall have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning.

  ~ Mahatma Gandhi quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Attitude, Belief, Believe

• Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions that we do in our own?

  ~ Brigham Young quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Confidence, Worry, Think, Should, Opinion

• What is to give light must endure burning.

  ~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Man's Search for Meaning

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Risk

• When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Death, Friend

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