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:-

• You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for… unless it's contagious!

  ~ Franklyn Broude quotes

• Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no great than those around you.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

  Motivational Quotes on: Greatness, Great, Nature

• He who rules his spirit has won a greater victory than the taking of a city.

  ~ Jesus quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery

• There are no ordinary moments.

  ~ Dan Millman quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Dan Millman

• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Genius, Emerson, Create, Work, Nature

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