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:-

• Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  ~ Carl Jung quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Self-awareness, Self Concept

• Those who have cultivated the habit of persistence seem to enjoy insurance against failure... The hidden Guide lets no one enjoy great achievement without passing the persistence test. Those who can’t take it simply do not make the grade.

  ~ Napoleon Hill quotes

• Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

  ~ Abraham Lincoln quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Attitude, Worry

• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable on persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

  ~ George Bernard Shaw quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: George Bernard Shaw, Yin, Unreasonable, Progress, Reason, Persist, Try, World

• He who has not forgiven an enemy has never tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

  ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Joy, Life

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