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:-

• Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

  ~ Basho quotes

• Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of revolutions. One thing he teaches, that there is rottenness where he appears.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Compensation

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• The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.

  ~ Shirley MacLaine quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Love

• Do not try to convert others to your point of view, except by holding it and living accordingly.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

  Inspirational Quotes on: Great, Try

• I can't give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

  ~ Herbert Bayard Swope quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Success, Failure, Body, Fire, Fail, Give, Try, Time

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