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:-

• The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

  ~ Thomas S. Monson quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: War, Great, Light

• Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual's character. Now to no other man can its wisdom appear as it does to him, for every man must be supposed to see a little farther on his own proper path than any one else. Therefore just and wise men take umbrage at his act, until after some little time be past: then they see it to be in unison with their acts. All prudent men see that the action is clean contrary to a sensual prosperity; for every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Heroism

  Motivational Quotes on: Action, Success, Wisdom, Character, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Secret, Act, Kind, Emerson, Past, Path, Work, Good, Great, Contradict, Hero, Prosperity, Wise, Heroism

• But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.

  ~ Nikola Tesla quotes from Autobiography

  Self-Development Quotes on: Truth, Autobiography, Effort, Edge, Knowledge, Doubt

• If he desired to know about automobiles, he would, without question, study diligently about automobiles. If his wife desired to be a gourmet cook, she’d certainly study the art of cooking, perhaps even attending a cooking class. Yet, it never seems as obvious to him that if he wants to live in love, he must spend at least as much time as the auto mechanic or the gourmet in studying love.

  ~ Leo Buscaglia quotes from Love

• He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'dib knew that every experience carries a lesson.

  ~ Frank Herbert quotes from Dune

  Self-Development Quotes on: Experience, Learn, Learning, Frank Herbert, New, Training, Trust, Rust, Believe, People

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