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:-

• Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.

  ~ Yoda quotes from The Empire Strikes Back

  Famous Quotes on: Yoda, Try

• 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

  Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Warrior, Simple

• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

  ~ Mark Twain quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Mark Twain, Ideal, Good, Sleep, Life, Friend, Idea, Friends

• The average person’s idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

  Famous Quotes on: Great, Average, Serve

• The indispensable first step to getting everything you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

  ~ Ben Stein quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Decide, Life

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