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:-

• Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Conduct of Life

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• Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.

  ~ Jack Nicklaus quotes

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• If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?

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

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• Commitment doesn’t mean that it has to last forever, but while you are there, commit yourself 100%. By doing this, the quality of your life improves 100%.

  ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

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• When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

  ~ John Muir quotes

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