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

• Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.

  ~ Sophia Loren quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Think, Sex, People

• Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.

  ~ Buddha quotes

• The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

  ~ Edward Gibbon quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: War, Win

• The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.

  ~ Joseph Campbell quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Experience, Joseph Campbell

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