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:-

• Whenever I make a bum decision, I just go out and make another.

  ~ Harry Truman quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Decide

• Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.

  ~ Socrates quotes from The Apology

  Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Excellence | Areté

• It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Sin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Life, Compensation, Try

• Every master was once a disaster.

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

  Inspirational Quotes on: Secret, Mind, Master

• Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

  ~ Epicurus quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Death

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