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:-

• Love not what you are but only what you may become.

  ~ Miguel de Cervantes quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Vision

• The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, “Ah Maestro, you are a genius!” Paderewski tartly replied, “Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!” What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

  ~ Eric Butterworth quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Genius, Act, Yin, Great, Labor, Eric Butterworth, Practice, Preparation, Rich, Brilliant

• Listen a hundred times. Ponder a thousand times. Speak once.

  ~ Unknown quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Unknown

• If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.

  ~ T. Harv Eker quotes from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

  Inspirational Quotes on: Change, Secret, Mind, Fruit, Will

• We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

  ~ Charles Kingsley quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Life, Happy

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