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:-

• With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington. They must be “cool but determined” he had told the men before the battle, when spirits were high. Now, in the face of catastrophe, he was demonstrating what he meant by his own example. Whatever anger or torment or despair he felt, he kept to himself.

  ~ David McCullough quotes from 1776

  Inspirational Quotes on: Mind, Despair, Spirit

• ...Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  ~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Man's Search for Meaning

  Self-Development Quotes on: Attitude, Perception, Freedom

• Don't pay attention to the critics. Don't even ignore them.

  ~ Samuel Goldwyn quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Critics, Samuel Goldwyn, Attention, Gold

• Ask and you shall receive. You must, yourself, do the asking…Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.

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

  Famous Quotes on: Genius, Secret, Best, Skin, Universe, Receive

• On this path, it is only the first step that counts.

  ~ St. Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney quotes

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