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:-

• My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear…no one except myself can appreciate how I have to work at this job every single day, never letting up for a moment. I always have on my mind the thought that next year I must do something greater, something more wonderful.

  ~ Harry Houdini quotes

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• Your first duty to God, to yourself, and to the world is to make yourself as great a personality, in every way, as you possibly can.

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

  Inspirational Quotes on: God, Persona, Great

• Arrogant S.O.B.s run the world. A performer can never have too much self-confidence. The best in every field are likely to strike most people as irrationally confident, but that's how they got to the top.

  ~ John Eliot, Ph.D. quotes from Overachievement: The New Model for Exceptional Performance

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• “You will see your life for what it really is: a small blip on the canvas of eternity. And you will come to see clearly who you are and the ultimate purpose of your life.” “Which is?” “To serve, of course.”

  ~ Robin Sharma quotes

• There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

  ~ William Shakespeare quotes

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