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:-

• My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Henry David Thoreau, Discover, Thoreau

• 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

  Inspirational Quotes on: Goals

• Never promise more than you can perform.

  ~ Pubilius Syrus quotes

• There is no use for energy of any kind whatsoever unless there is a plan back of it.

  ~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe

  Motivational Quotes on: Energy, Secret, Kind, Universe

• Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.

  ~ Brian Tracy quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Decide, Purpose, Brian Tracy, Act, Life

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