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:-

• He who would learn to fly one day must learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Learn, Friedrich Nietzsche, Yin, Nietzsche, Dance

• The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.

  ~ Vince Lombardi quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Success, Dictionary, Work

• …it was dangerous to overflow because we might end up finding ourselves occupied by our loved ones and drowning them with our love and enthusiasm.

  ~ Paulo Coelho quotes from Veronika Decides to Die

  Motivational Quotes on: Enthusiasm, Decide, Love, Paulo Coelho, Flow

• The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

  ~ James Fenimore Cooper quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Business, Vision, Sin, Rest, Life, Reason, Control, World

• Well done is better than well said.

  ~ Benjamin Franklin quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Benjamin Franklin, Better

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