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:-

• I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

  ~ John Keats quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Great, Fail

• The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

  ~ Arthur C. Clarke quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Discover

• It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

  ~ Cicero quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Character, Act

• Creative minds have already embraced the symbolic nature of success and failure…failure, they say, is a "step on the road to success…"

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

  Motivational Quotes on: Success, Failure, Unknown, Mistake, Mind, Nature, Fail, Creative

• I embrace desires and seeking and fear and distinctions. I embrace them all but I am not bound by them, I’m not attached to them. I can have a desire, and drop the desire if it’s not fulfilled... I don’t get stuck anywhere.

  ~ Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel quotes

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