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:-

• Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.

  ~ Vernon Howard quotes from The Power of Your Supermind

  Famous Quotes on: War, Flow, Power, Mind, Vernon Howard, The Power of Your Supermind, Persist, Persistence

• The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

  ~ Walt Disney quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action

• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

  ~ Will Durant quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Will Durant, Education, Progress, Discover, Ignorance, Will

• Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

  ~ Dr. Samuel Johnson quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Success, Sin, Samuel Johnson, New, Life

• Life gets better when we get better.

  ~ Sal Sorbera quotes

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