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:-

• Once a man worries, he clings to anything out of desperation; and once he clings he is bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whomever or whatever he is clinging to. A warrior-hunter, on the other hand, knows he will lure game into his traps over and over again, so he doesn't worry.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Journey to Ixtlan

  Self-Development Quotes on: Attitude, Worry, Warrior

• Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.

  ~ St. Francis De Sales quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Strength, St. Francis, Strong

• What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

  ~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Man's Search for Meaning

  Motivational Quotes on: Vision, Purpose

• A love song is just a caress set to music.

  ~ Sigmund Romberg quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Music

• History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

  ~ B.C. Forbes quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Heart, Obstacle, Winner, History, Defeat, Win

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