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:-

• I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific.

  ~ Lilly Tomlin quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Body, Should

• The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also the most difficult talk.

  ~ Robertson Davies quotes

• How do I know what I think, until I hear what I say?

  ~ E.M. Forster quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Think, Now

• I was a warrior so my son could be a farmer so his son could be a poet.

  ~ John Adams quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: War, Warrior

• All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

  ~ Orison Swett Marden quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Great

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