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:-

• An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.

  ~ G.K. Chesterton quotes from On Running After Ones Hat, All Things Considered

  Motivational Quotes on: Adventure, Right

• Faith is expectancy. You do not receive what you want; you do not receive what you pray for, not even what you say you have faith in. You will always receive what you actually expect.

  ~ Eric Butterworth quotes

• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary: new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or old laws will be expanded and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with license of a higher order of beings.

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Success, Henry David Thoreau, Live, Dreams, Dream, New, Life, Thoreau, Expect, Expand, Within, Confident

• If you look at your life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

  ~ Elizabeth Bowen quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Attitude, Perception, Life

• No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Compensation

  Motivational Quotes on: Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Compensation, Understand

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