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:-

• Effective people are not problem-minded; they’re opportunity-minded.

  ~ Stephen R. Covey quotes from The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

  Self-Development Quotes on: Habit, Stephen R. Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effctive People, Mind, People

• It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

  ~ Cicero quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Character, Act

• Duty cannot be contrasted with pleasure nor work with play when duty is pleasure, when work is play, and people doing their duty are simultaneously seeking pleasure and being happy.

  ~ Abraham Maslow quotes

• Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Perseverance, Success, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Great, Body

• If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Confidence

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