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:-

• Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements… According to prevailing attitudes, these people--the pride and joy of their parents--should have had a strong and stable sense of self-assurance. But the case is exactly the opposite... [Whenever they suddenly get the feeling they have failed to live up to some ideal image or have not measured up to some standard, then they are plagued by anxiety or deep feelings of guilt and shame. What are the reasons for such disturbances in these competent, accomplished people?

  ~ Alice Miller quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Attitude, Live, Anxiety, Act, Pride, Ideal, Feelings, Reason, Achievement, Rent, Fail, Joy, Talent, Achieve, People, Shame, Strong, Parents

• When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything you gave me."

  ~ Erma Bombeck quotes

  Famous Quotes on: God, Sin, Life, Talent

• Always try to be yourself.

  ~ Russell Simmons quotes from Do You!

  Inspirational Quotes on: Be You, Try

• It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational Quotes on: Confidence

• We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before “arriving.”

  ~ Napoleon Hill quotes

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