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:-

• Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of revolutions. One thing he teaches, that there is rottenness where he appears.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Compensation

  Motivational Quotes on: Fear, Teach, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Great, Compensation

• Humans cannot exist if everything that is unpleasant is eliminated instead of understood.

  ~ Marlo Morgan quotes from Mutant Message from Down Under

• Don’t suffer fools or you’ll become one.

  ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

  Motivational Quotes on: Work, Suffer

• For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Simplicity, Freedom

• Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

  ~ Marilyn Vos Savant quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Marilyn Vos Savant, Giving, Defeat

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