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:-

• It's not the will to win that matters--everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

  ~ Paul "Bear" Bryant quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Win

• Knowledge is proud that she knows so much; Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.

  ~ Cowper quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Wisdom, Edge, Knowledge, Now, Humble

• Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

  ~ Thoreau quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Luck, Best, Thoreau, Will

• Only by much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained, and man can find every truth connected with his being if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul.

  ~ James Allen quotes from As a Man Thinketh

  Self-Development Quotes on: Self-awareness, Reflection, Truth

• Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Enthusiasm, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Great, Command

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