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:-

• You do not not get stomach ulcers from what you eat. You get ulcers from what is eating you.

  ~ Dr. Montague quotes

• Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

  Motivational Quotes on: Perfection, Ideal, Great, Perfect

• The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

  ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Goals

• As you start to see the possibilities in the impossible, you will begin to see that the world works “perfectly.” You can find reason and purpose in everything—if you open your mind to it.

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

  Self-Development Quotes on: Fear, Purpose, Work, Mind, Reason, Perfect, Impossible, World, Will, Feel, Possibilities

• To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

  ~ Pierre Corneille quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Risk, Win

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