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:-

• To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Tales of Power

  Famous Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Warrior, Simple

• Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves.

  ~ James Allen quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Love

• To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first hand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses.

  ~ Leonardo da Vinci quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom

• We are the ones we've been waiting for.

  ~ June Jordan quotes

• The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

  ~ Og Mandino quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Love, Success, Service

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