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:-

• Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence. Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation. On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors. Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external. People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.

  ~ Martin Seligman quotes from Learned Optimism; p. 48-50

  Inspirational Quotes on: Learn, Future, Martin Seligman, Learned Optimism, Permanence, Act, Better, Good, Bad, Practice, Despair, Believe, People, Optimist

• We tend to view confidence as a product of accomplishment rather than part of the process that leads there. But supremely confident people were confident long before they achieved anything.

  ~ John Eliot, Ph.D. quotes from Overachievement: The New Model for Exceptional Performance

  Motivational Quotes on: Confidence, John Eliot, Overachievement, New, Achievement, Accomplishment, Achieve, People, Confident

• With people with only modest ability, modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

  ~ Arthur Schopenhauer quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Talent, People, Modesty

• The worse a person is the less he feels it.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Inspirational Quotes on: Self-awareness, Self Concept

• A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.

  ~ Marcus Aurelius quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Love

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