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:-

• There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true self.

  ~ William James quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Failure, William James, Fail, Faith

• I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves—before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.

  ~ Dale Carnegie quotes

• Each of us wrestles with the dark giant in our own way.

  ~ Connie Zweig quotes from Romancing the Shadow

  Self-Development Quotes on: Rest

• Risk takers: their goal in life is not to succeed, make money, be happy or be anything other than engaged.

  ~ Unknown quotes from Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation

  Self-Development Quotes on: Risk, Unknown, Mistake, Life, Takers, Money, Happy

• I will form good habits and become their slaves.

  ~ Og Mandino quotes from The Greatest Salesman in the World

  Famous Quotes on: Habit, Og Mandino, Good, Great

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