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:-

• Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

  ~ David McCullough quotes from 1776

  Famous Quotes on: Courage, Command, Despair, Exceptional

• The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

  ~ Confucius quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Love, Stress

• The rain-weeping and the sun burning twine together to make us grow. Keep your intelligence white-hot and your grief glistening, so your life will stay fresh. Cry easily like a little child.

  ~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance

  Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Life, Win

• If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

  ~ Tony Robbins quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Tony Robbins, Dream, Achieve

• Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

  ~ Dale Carnegie quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Yin, Try, World, People

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