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 learn to be content. But the doctrine of compensation is not the doctrine of indifferency.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Compensation

  Motivational Quotes on: Learn, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Compensation

• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Albert Einstein, Edge, Knowledge, Now

• History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

  ~ B.C. Forbes quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Heart, Obstacle, Winner, History, Defeat, Win

• Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It wasn't reasoned into him, and it cannot be reasoned out.

  ~ Sydney Smith quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Wisdom

• 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

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