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:-

• Henry Fonda was still throwing up before each stage performance, even when he was seventy-five. In other words, fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

  ~ Steven Pressfield quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Fear, War, Live, New, Warrior, Steven Pressfield, Win

• A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy.

  ~ Chinese Proverb quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Joy

• Have the daring to stop doing the things you really don’t want to do. Can you see them? Look closely. Can you observe the many things you do because you reluctantly feel you should or must? Watch closely. Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.

  ~ Vernon Howard quotes from The Power of Your Supermind

  Motivational Quotes on: Action, War, Stop, Act, Power, Mind, Doing, Vernon Howard, The Power of Your Supermind, Reaction, Slavery, Compulsion, Serve

• If at first you do succeed, try something harder.

  ~ Ann Landers quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Vision

• Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses…

  ~ Marcus Aurelius quotes from Meditations

  Motivational Quotes on: Action, The Moment, Life

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