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:-

• All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's possible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

  ~ Niccolo Machiavelli quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Risk, Acting, Act, Mistake, Suffer, Strength, Latin, Bold, Anger

• Seeing things as they were, not as he would wish they were, was known to be one of Washington’s salient strengths.

  ~ David McCullough quotes from 1776

  Inspirational Quotes on: Strength

• I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? … The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes from Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Growth

• Named must your fear be before banish it you can.

  ~ Yoda quotes from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

  Inspirational Quotes on: Fear, War, Yoda, Star Wars

• I’ve built my success on the idea that a win for me involves a win for everyone around me.

  ~ Donny Deutsch quotes from Often Wrong Never in Doubt

  Inspirational Quotes on: Success, Win

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