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:-

• Indecision is often worse than wrong action.

  ~ Henry Ford quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Decide

• How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery

• Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

  ~ Dale Carnegie quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Yin, Try, World, People

• In all cases where doubt crops up, ask yourself, “If I had a gun to my head and had to do it, how would I do it?” It’s not as hard as you think.

  ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

  Motivational Quotes on: Think, Work, Doubt

• Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

  ~ John F. Kennedy quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Change, John F. Kennedy, Future, Past, Life

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