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:-

• If I am through learning, I am through.

  ~ John Wooden quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Learn, Learning, John Wooden

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

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

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

• Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to help the most people?'"

  ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Good Business

  Famous Quotes on: Business, God, Sin, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Zen, Good, Talent, People

• A man's life is interesting primarily when he had failed for it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

  ~ Georges Clemenceau quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Failure, Life

• Arrogant S.O.B.s run the world. A performer can never have too much self-confidence. The best in every field are likely to strike most people as irrationally confident, but that's how they got to the top.

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

  Self-Development Quotes on: Confidence, John Eliot, Overachievement, New, Best, Achievement, People, Confident

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