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:-

• God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Risk, God

• Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

  ~ Greer Garson quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Mistake, Good, Great, Life, Doing, Money

• Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

  ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Give

• Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks he is!

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Think, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson

• The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes from Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

  Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Life

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