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:-

• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Genius, Emerson, Create, Work, Nature

• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

  ~ Gail Godwin quotes

  Famous Quotes on: God, Teach, Good, Preparation, Heat, Win

• Those who take bold chances don’t think failure is the opposite of success. They believe complacency is.

  ~ Unknown quotes from Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation

  Inspirational Quotes on: Success, Failure, Think, Unknown, Mistake, Fail, Believe, Bold

• Through some strange and powerful principle of “mental chemistry” which she has never divulged, Nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire “that something” which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure.

  ~ Napoleon Hill quotes

• Know thyself.

  ~ Socrates quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Self-awareness, Reflection

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