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:-

• It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

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• Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you.

  ~ Henry Ward Beecher quotes

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• Pep without purpose is piffle.

  ~ Unknown quotes

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• All of life’s experiences are teachers in some sense, challenging us to grow and evolve. Although the Persecutor certainly provokes a reaction, the Challenger elicits a response by encouraging the Creator to acquire new knowledge, skill, or insight. Both roles provoke change, but in different ways.

  ~ David Emerald quotes from The Power of TED*

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• The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defiant though he look he has a helm which he obeys, which is he idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

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