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:-

• When a junior executive lost IBM $10m on a risky venture, Tom Watson, Jr., rejected his offer to resign. “You can’t be serious,” said IBM’s head, “we’ve just spent $10m educating you!”

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

  Self-Development Quotes on: Risk, Unknown, Mistake

• No one should abandon duties because he sees defects in them. Every action, every activity, is surrounded by defects as a fire is surrounded by smoke.

  ~ Krishna quotes from The Bhagavad Gita

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Learning

• The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Love, Death, Life, Knowledge, Fear

• It is the act of forgiveness that opens up the only possible way to think creatively about the future at all.

  ~ Father Desmond Wilson quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Think, Forgiveness, Future, Act, Give, Forgive, Creative

• There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.

  ~ J. Paul Getty quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Act

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