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:-

• Too many of those with unrealized aspirations have set them aside due to fear of failure. The bigger the dream, the greater the fear. Doing less than our best allays this fear. I could have done better if I’d tried, we assure ourselves. Among the least appreciated reasons for doing superficial, second-rate work of any kind is the comfort of knowing it’s not our best that’s on the line. By not trying too hard, we avoid learning what our true potential is, and having to fulfill it. Doing our best can be deeply threatening. It forces us to consider what we’re actually capable of accomplishing. Once we learn that lesson, we can’t unlearn it. Our true potential becomes both a shining light we can follow and an oppressive burden of expectation that might, or might not, be met.

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

  Motivational Quotes on: Fear, Failure, Learn, Learning, Unknown, Dream, Act, Kind, Yin, Follow, Better, Mistake, Work, Best, Great, Reason, Doing, Potential, Light, Appreciate, Fail, Expect, Try, Win

• Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes…but that would be a mistake.

  ~ Unknown quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Unknown, Mistake, Now

• One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

  ~ Bertrand Russell quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Belief, Work, Break

• "From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received."

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Life, Happiness

• 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

  Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Katie, Mind, Understand, Time, Right, People, Shift

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