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:-

• If you haven’t failed, you’re not trying hard enough.

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

  Motivational Quotes on: Unknown, Yin, Mistake, Fail, Try

• I learned that the only way you're going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete, or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win. If you don't you won't.

  ~ Bruce Jenner quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Business, Learn, Sin, Work, Life, Athlete, Music, Win

• It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

  ~ e.e. cummings quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, E.e. Cummings

• Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

  ~ Napoleon Bonaparte quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Napoleon Bonaparte

• Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be. Your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

  ~ James Allen quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Vision, Dream

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