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:-

• Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.

  ~ Ramana Maharshi quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Doubt

• Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

  ~ Abraham Lincoln quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Attitude, Worry

• 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

  Inspirational Quotes on: Vision, Dream, Sex, World

• Be like the bird, who, feeling the branch break beneath him sings, knowing that he has wings.

  ~ Victor Hugo quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Sin, Victor Hugo, Win

• In a hamlet of ten households, there are bound to be those who are my equal in doing their best for others and in being trustworthy in what they say, but they are unlikely to be as eager to learn as I am.

  ~ Confucius quotes from The Analects

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Learning

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