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:-

• The wise man then followed a simple way of life—which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Famous Quotes on: Wisdom, Simplicity, Life, Simple, Wise

• The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he doesn't permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Tales of Power

  Motivational Quotes on: Attitude, Humility, Warrior, Humble

• It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

  ~ Tony Robbins quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Tony Robbins, Happy

• You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look at fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the think you think you cannot do.

  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Confidence, Courage, Fear, Experience, Think, Eleanor Roosevelt, Live, Stop

• The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.

  ~ Henry S. Haskins quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Great, Skin, Master

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