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:-

• How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.

  ~ Unknown quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Character, Unknown, Act, Game, Now

• Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

  ~ Bodhidharma quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Attitude, Thoughts

• All the problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, its spines crumble.

  ~ William S. Halsey quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Bold

• The passing moment is all we can be sure of; extract its utmost value.

  ~ W. Somerset Maugham quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Sin, W. Somerset Maugham, Act

• The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

  ~ Alfred Adler quotes

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Quotes by Teachers

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