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:-

• Apathy can only be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: First, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

  ~ Arnold Toynbee quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Vision, Enthusiasm, Act, Yin, Path, Ideal, Practice

• Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

  ~ N. Eldon Tanner quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Vice, N. Eldon Tanner, Rent, Earth, Service

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

  ~ Robert F. Kennedy quotes

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• We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And, the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, 'O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless -- of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these O me, O life? Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.' That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

  ~ John Keating quotes from Dead Poets Society

  Motivational Quotes on: Business, Love, Sin, Live, Questions, Power, Good, Life, Passion, Whitman, Faith, Try, Beauty, Society, Will, Identity, Train, Cause, Poetry, Question, Roman

• We don't know a millionth of 1 percent about anything.

  ~ Thomas Edison quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom

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