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:-

• The ancestor to every action is a thought.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

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• Bill Russell is one of the great names in basketball, an all-American… and the only athlete to ever win an NCAA Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal, and a professional championship all in the same year—1956…But Bill Russell had this one problem: He threw up before every game.

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

  Famous Quotes on: Bill Russel, John Eliot, Overachievement, New, Game, Great, Achievement, Basketball, Athlete, Gold, Win

• The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.

  ~ Unknown quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Unknown, Now

• Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

  ~ Confucius quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Love, Knowledge

• I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway.

  ~ Georgia O'Keefe quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Sin, Life

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