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:-

• Freedom to be your best is nothing unless you're willing to do your best.

  ~ Colin Powell quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Action, Freedom

• What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

  ~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Man's Search for Meaning

  Inspirational Quotes on: Vision, Purpose

• In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves. Self-discipline with all of them came first.

  ~ Harry Truman quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Harry Truman, Live, Great, Victory

• I said to myself: “You mean all those people out there that I’ve been envying because they’re not afraid to move ahead with their lives have really been afraid? Why didn’t somebody tell me!?” I guess I never asked.

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

  Self-Development Quotes on: Fear, Live, Yin, Body, Envy, Cause, Feel, People

• Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I will move the entire earth.

  ~ Archimedes quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Give, Will, Earth

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