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:-

• The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

  ~ James Allen quotes from As a Man Thinketh

  Self-Development Quotes on: Vision, Intent, Achieve, Dream

• Reshape yourself through the power of your will... Those who have conquered themselves...live in peace, alike in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, praise and blame...To such people a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same...Because they are impartial, they rise to great heights.

  ~ Krishna quotes from The Bhagavad Gita

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery, Power, People, Peace

• Envy is ignorance. Imitation is suicide.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Courage, Individuality

• The true value of human being can be found in degrees to which he has attained liberation from the self.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Albert Einstein

• Speak what you think today in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage

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