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:-

• Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

  ~ Morihei Ueshiba quotes from The Art of Peace

  Famous Quotes on: Goals, Life, Win

• “A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed—I well know,” said the French statesman, Georges Clemenceau, “for it’s a sign that he tried to surpass himself.”

  ~ Unknown quotes from Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation

  Famous Quotes on: Georges Clemenceau, Unknown, Mistake, Rest, Life, Fail

• In the real world, those of us who are most productive, successful, and satisfied focus not on fixing feelings or manipulating thoughts, but on what needs to be done—and then doing it—no matter what thoughts or feelings arise.

  ~ Dan Millman quotes from Living on Purpose

  Famous Quotes on: Focus, Thoughts, Success, Purpose, Dan Millman, Feelings, Doing

• I’ll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was true was that I immediately felt defensive. I blocked it off, and I went to war with them in my mind and suffered all that goes with it. And they were only saying what was true.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Motivational Quotes on: War, Katie, Yin, New, Mind, Suffer

• You must have absolute faith in your own perceptions of truth. Never act in haste or hurry; be deliberated in everything; wait until you know the true way.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

  Inspirational Quotes on: Perception, Truth, Act, Great, Faith

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