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:-

• Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It wasn't reasoned into him, and it cannot be reasoned out.

  ~ Sydney Smith quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom

• Let us fight the battle—retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery

• Well done is better than well said.

  ~ Benjamin Franklin quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Benjamin Franklin, Better

• We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Self-awareness, Self Concept

• Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Perseverance, Success, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Great, Body

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