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:-

• I just do not hang around anybody that I don't want to be with. Period. For me, that's been a blessing, and I can stay positive. I hang around people who are happy, who are growing, who want to learn, who don't mind saying sorry or thank you… and [are] having a fun time.

  ~ John Assaraf quotes

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• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes

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• Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

  ~ Confucius quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Confucius, Friend

• Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty.

  ~ Russell Simmons quotes from Do You!

  Motivational Quotes on: Honesty, Success, Kind

• The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, “Ah Maestro, you are a genius!” Paderewski tartly replied, “Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!” What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

  ~ Eric Butterworth quotes

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