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:-

• He had kept his head, kept his health and his strength, bearing up under a weight of work and worry that only a few could have carried.

  ~ David McCullough quotes from 1776

  Motivational Quotes on: Worry, Health, Work, Strength

• Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

  ~ Mark Twain quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Mark Twain, Smile, Should

• ...Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  ~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Man's Search for Meaning

  Inspirational Quotes on: Attitude, Perception, Freedom

• Pursuing success is like chasing the horizon, and failure is an integral part of an interesting life.

  ~ Unknown quotes from Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation

  Inspirational Quotes on: Success, Failure, Sin, Unknown, Horizon, Mistake, Rest, Life, Fail, Integral

• It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.

  ~ Paul Theroux quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Outcome, Hero, Now

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