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:-

• Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of revolutions. One thing he teaches, that there is rottenness where he appears.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Compensation

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• I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

  ~ Frank Lloyd Wright quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, God, Believe

• Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most.

  ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

  Inspirational Quotes on: Work, Good, People

• In all my life I have never heard a mother call out to her child as she goes off to school, “Take a lot of risks today, darling.” She is more likely to convey to her child, “Be careful, darling.” This “Be careful” carries with it a double message: ”The world is really dangerous out there” … and … “you won’t be able to handle it.”

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

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• Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

  ~ John Ruskin quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Genius, Power, Skin, Superior

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