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:-

• False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

  ~ Socrates quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Attitude

• I have learned as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to fonts of wisdom and knowledge.

  ~ Igor Stravinsky quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Wisdom, Failure, Knowledge

• Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course.

  ~ Edward J. Koch quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Confidence, Change, War, Decisions, Decision, Believe

• I've missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  ~ Michael Jordan quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Michael Jordan, Game, Trust, Life, Rust, Fail, Win, Career

• Let your thoughts be ruled by principle, and then live up to your thoughts.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

  Famous Quotes on: Thoughts, Live, Great

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