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:-

• Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

  ~ Aristotle quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Enthusiasm

• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

  ~ Abraham Lincoln quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Abraham Lincoln, Solution, Mind

• Is not life a hundred times too short to bore ourselves?

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Life

• Genuine effort is success.

  ~ Vernon Howard quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Success, War, Effort, Vernon Howard

• All of us have failed to reach our dream of perfection, so I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

  ~ William Faulkner quotes from Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation

  Self-Development Quotes on: Failure, Perfection, William Faulkner, Dream, Mistake, Perfect, Fail, Impossible

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