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:-

• I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

  ~ Dumbledore quotes from Harry Potter

  Motivational Quotes on: Act, Mistake, Give

• [On Knox:]…despite…repeated mishaps that would have broken lesser spirits several times over.

  ~ David McCullough quotes from 1776

  Motivational Quotes on: Spirit

• The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

  ~ William James quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: William James, Act, Path

• Indecision is the thief of opportunity.

  ~ Jim Rohn quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Courage, Decide

• I used to think that one day I'd be able to resolve the different drives I have in different directions, the tensions between the different people I am. Now I realize that is who I am. I do feel I'm getting closer to the song in my head. I wasn't looking for grace. But luckily grace was looking for me.

  ~ Bono quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Luck, Think, Tension, Rent, People

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