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:-

• Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Common Opinion

• Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest came just one step *beyond* the point at which defeat had overtaken them.

  ~ Napoleon Hill quotes

• I love not rushing the process. Mind doesn’t shift until it does, and when it does shift, it’s right on time, not one second too late or too soon. People are like seeds waiting to sprout. We can’t be pushed ahead of our own understanding.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Famous Quotes on: Love, Katie, Mind, Understand, Time, Right, People, Shift

• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

  ~ Robert F. Kennedy quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Robert F. Kennedy, Great, Fail, Achieve

• I can't give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

  ~ Herbert Bayard Swope quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Success, Failure, Body, Fire, Fail, Give, Try, Time

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