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 only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

  ~ Og Mandino quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Love, Success, Service

• Anything you undertake will be possible to accomplish.

  ~ Roger McDonald quotes from Message of a Master

  Self-Development Quotes on: Master

• This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

  ~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Growth

• When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine yourself.

  ~ Confucius quotes from The Analects

  Inspirational Quotes on: Self-awareness, Reflection

• Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

  ~ Calvin Coolidge quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Calvin Coolidge, Persist, Persistence, Determination

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