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:-

• Be like the bird, who, feeling the branch break beneath him sings, knowing that he has wings.

  ~ Victor Hugo quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Sin, Victor Hugo, Win

• The only thing keeping you from getting what you want are the stories you're telling yourself about why you can't have it.

  ~ Tony Robbins quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Tony Robbins

• You’re not living until it doesn’t matter a tinker’s damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you’re ready to lose your life, you live it.

  ~ Anthony de Mello quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Live, Life, Anthony De Mello

• "It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it."

  ~ W. Somerset Maugham quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Goals, Commitment, Life

• People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

  ~ George Bernard Shaw quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: George Bernard Shaw, World, Circumstance, Believe, People

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