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 is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

  ~ St. Francis of Assisi quotes

• People who refuse to take risks live with a feeling of dread that is far more severe than what they would feel if they took the risks necessary to make them less helpless—only they don’t know it!

  ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

  Motivational Quotes on: Fear, Risk, Live, Now, Feel, People

• I wanted to live deep and suck out all he marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swatch and shave close, to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it or if it were sublime to know it by experience and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes from Walden

  Inspirational Quotes on: Experience, Henry David Thoreau, Live, Life, Thoreau, Give

• You can be anything you want to be, if you only believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

  ~ Napoleon Hill quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Napoleon Hill, Act, Mind, Dance, Faith, Achieve, Believe

• In the end, the only people who fail are those who don't try.

  ~ David Viscott quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Fail, Try, People

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