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:-

• People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

  ~ John W. Newbern quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: New, People

• You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.

  ~ R. Buckminster Fuller quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Devo, Rest, Attention, Universe, Time, Age, Will, Support

• There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Compensation

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Compensation, Edge, Beauty, Knowledge

• The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

  ~ Elbert Hubbard quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Fear, Mistake, Great, Life, Will

• …Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out.

  ~ David McCullough quotes from 1776

  Inspirational Quotes on: Sin, Yin, Power, Leader

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