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:-

• People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

  ~ Soren Aabye Kierkegaard quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Kierkegaard, Demand, Freedom, Thought, People

• Do you know what real poverty is? It is never having a big thought or a generous impulse.

  ~ Jerome P. Fleishman quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Poverty

• They know how to work without waste of energy. In order to get the best that is within themselves, they learn to eliminate from their thoughts and actions everything which subtracts from their purposes.

  ~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe

  Famous Quotes on: Action, Thoughts, Energy, Purpose, Learn, Secret, Act, Work, Best, Waste, Universe, Within

• A warrior never worries about his fear.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from A Separate Reality

  Inspirational Quotes on: Attitude, Worry, Fear, Warrior

• Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

  ~ Winston Churchill quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Failure, Success

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