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:-

• When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

  ~ Helen Keller quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Happiness, Helen Keller

• If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!

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

  Inspirational Quotes on: Focus, Change, Sin, Secret, Stop, Mind, Problem, Problems

• You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

  ~ Henry Ford quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action

• Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.

  ~ Buckminster Fuller quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Mistake, Give

• We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Goals

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