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:-

• Any coward can sit at home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather by far die on a mountainside than in bed.

  ~ Charles Lindbergh quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Critics

• There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

  ~ Seneca quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Learn, Seneca, Busy

• I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he believes he cannot compose music, he will come to nothing. He will not try hard enough. He will give up too soon when the elusive right melody takes too long to materialize.

  ~ Martin Seligman quotes from Learned Optimism

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Desire, Learn, Mozart, Martin Seligman, Learned Optimism, Passion, Music, Give, Try, Talent, Believe

• Your inner world reflects your outer world.

  ~ T. Harv Eker quotes from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

  Self-Development Quotes on: Secret, Mind, World

• A vision without a task is but a dream, a task without a vision is drudgery, a vision and a task is the hope of the world.

  ~ From a church in Sussex, England, ca. 1730 quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Vision, Dream, Sex, World

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