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:-

• The easiest thing in the world is to be you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

  ~ Leo Buscaglia quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love, People

• Don't let your throat tighten with fear. Take sips of breath all day and night, before death closes your mouth.

  ~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Fear, Death

• Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.

  ~ Thomas J. Watson quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Success, Failure, Fail, Give, Simple

• Forget the pain. Learn to endure. Focus your attention elsewhere.

  ~ Marlo Morgan quotes from Mutant Message from Down Under

  Famous Quotes on: Focus, Learn, Pain, Endure, Attention

• Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.

  ~ Richard Paul Evans quotes

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Quotes by Teachers

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