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:-

• What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

  ~ Rollo May quotes

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•  Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding that limit.

  ~ Elbert Hubbard quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Foolishness, Humor

• Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.

  ~ Henry Ford quotes

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• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt quotes

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• Are you a “victim,” or are you taking responsibility for your life?

  ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

  Inspirational Quotes on: Responsibility, Fear, Life, Feel, Victim

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