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:-

• Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself.

  ~ Harry Truman quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love

• The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

  ~ Emile Zola quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Work, Gift

• To believe your own thoughts, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men--that is genius.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Thoughts, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Genius, Emerson, Heart, Believe

• Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it.

  ~ Napoleon Hill quotes

• I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers.

  ~ Nikola Tesla quotes from Autobiography

  Motivational Quotes on: Autobiography, Devo, Work

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