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:-

• Don't pay any attention to the critics. Don't even ignore them.

  ~ Samuel Goldwyn quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Courage

• Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

  ~ Alexander Graham Bell quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Focus

• The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Tales of Power

  Famous Quotes on: Attitude, Internal Dialogue, Warrior, People

• It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only when we are living at 100%--when we are fully using the physical and mental equipment we have been given.

  ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Good Business

  Inspirational Quotes on: Business, Experience, Happiness, Sin, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Zen, Vice, Good, Give

• To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

  ~ Winston Churchill quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Growth

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