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:-

• It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.

  ~ Elbert Hubbard quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Decide, Great, Strength

• I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

  ~ Thomas Jefferson quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Luck, Thomas Jefferson, Work

• The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves.

  ~ Connie Zweig quotes from Romancing the Shadow

  Inspirational Quotes on: Projections, Act, Fail

• He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes from Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

  Motivational Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery

• If you can't, you must. If you must, you can.

  ~ Tony Robbins quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Tony Robbins

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