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:-

• Towering genius disdains a beaten path … It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

  ~ Abraham Lincoln quotes from Lyceum Address

  Inspirational Quotes on: Abraham Lincoln, Genius, Path

• The bottom line is that if you become a master at handling problems and overcoming obstacles, what can stop you from success? The answer is nothing! And if nothing can stop you, you become unstoppable!

  ~ T. Harv Eker quotes from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

  Inspirational Quotes on: Success, Secret, Stop, Obstacle, Mind, Master, Problem, Become, Problems

• When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; … he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Compensation

  Motivational Quotes on: Insanity, Learn, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Compensation, Moderation, Ignorance, Skill, Defeat

• The passion, the competitiveness, the swinging for the fences, it adds up.

  ~ Donny Deutsch quotes from Often Wrong Never in Doubt

  Self-Development Quotes on: Passion, Win

• If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

  ~ Thomas A. Edison quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Doing

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