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:-

• Not failure, but low aim, is crime

  ~ James Russell Lowell quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Failure, Fail

• As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

  ~ James Allen quotes from As a Man Thinketh

  Famous Quotes on: Attitude, Thoughts, Strong, Weak

• Never confuse motion with action.

  ~ Benjamin Franklin quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Focus, Motion

• No wonder you feel fearful—victims are powerless!

  ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

  Self-Development Quotes on: Fear, Power, Feel, Victim

• Good is the enemy of great.

  ~ Jim Collins quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Good, Great

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