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:-

• I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

  ~ Pietro Aretino quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Love, Truth, Lies, Cause

• There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, “Failure is not an option.”

  ~ Donny Deutsch quotes from Often Wrong Never in Doubt

  Motivational Quotes on: Business, Failure, Sin, Life, Fail

• You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God.

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

  Inspirational Quotes on: Thoughts, Worry, Fear, God, Truth, Anxiety, Great

• I used to think that one day I'd be able to resolve the different drives I have in different directions, the tensions between the different people I am. Now I realize that is who I am. I do feel I'm getting closer to the song in my head. I wasn't looking for grace. But luckily grace was looking for me.

  ~ Bono quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Luck, Think, Tension, Rent, People

• The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Patience

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