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:-

• The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

  ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Goals

• Great performers require a measure of confidence that would strike many as absurd, unfounded, and downright irrational. They believe in themselves utterly, without question, even when everyone else is questioning how good (or sane) they are.

  ~ John Eliot, Ph.D. quotes from Overachievement: The New Model for Exceptional Performance

  Motivational Quotes on: Confidence, John Eliot, Overachievement, New, Good, Great, Achievement, Believe

• We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

  ~ Carl Sagan quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Sin, The Moment, History

• If you take risks, you may fail. But if you don't take risks, you will surely fail. The greatest risk of all is to do nothing.

  ~ Robert Goizueta quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Courage

• Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.

  ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

  Inspirational Quotes on: Emphasize, Work, Weakness, Weak

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