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:-

• You have to begin to tell the story of your life as you now want it to be and discontinue the tales of how it has been or of how it is.

  ~ Esther & Jerry Hicks quotes

• But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Heroism

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• I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves—before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.

  ~ Dale Carnegie quotes

• The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

  ~ Alexander Graham Bell quotes

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• It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

  ~ Francis Bacon quotes

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