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:-

• Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from The Teachings of Don Juan

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Learning

• Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Action, Albert Einstein, Act, Life, Attraction

• Speak what you think today in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Courage

• The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on al that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives that you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.

  ~ Rabbi Harold Kushner quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Action, Purpose, Live, Act, Life, Time, Will, People, Defeat, Win

• If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.

  ~ Vernon Howard quotes from The Power of Your Supermind

  Inspirational Quotes on: Business, Think, War, Sin, Live, Power, Good, Mind, Bad, Vernon Howard, The Power of Your Supermind

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