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:-

• Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

  ~ Carl Sandburg quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Gift, Now, Will

• Not a shred of evidence exists that life is serious!

  ~ Jan Marshall quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Life

• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

  ~ Victor Hugo quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Happiness, Life, Victor Hugo

• Everything passes, everything.

  ~ Anthony de Mello quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Anthony De Mello

• Arrogant S.O.B.s run the world. A performer can never have too much self-confidence. The best in every field are likely to strike most people as irrationally confident, but that's how they got to the top.

  ~ John Eliot, Ph.D. quotes from Overachievement: The New Model for Exceptional Performance

  Famous Quotes on: Confidence, John Eliot, Overachievement, New, Best, Achievement, People, Confident

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