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:-

• Once a man worries, he clings to anything out of desperation; and once he clings he is bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whomever or whatever he is clinging to. A warrior-hunter, on the other hand, knows he will lure game into his traps over and over again, so he doesn't worry.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Journey to Ixtlan

  Motivational Quotes on: Attitude, Worry, Warrior

• The way you get meaning in your life is to devote yourself to others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

  ~ Mitch Albom quotes from Tuesdays with Morrie

  Famous Quotes on: Purpose, Devo, Life, The Way, Give

• We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.

  ~ Eric Hoffer quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Confidence, Change, Eric Hoffer, Ras, New

• Your first duty to God, to yourself, and to the world is to make yourself as great a personality, in every way, as you possibly can.

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

  Motivational Quotes on: God, Persona, Great

• We need men who can dream of things that never were.

  ~ John F. Kennedy quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Vision, Dream

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