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:-

• None of us can change our yesterdays, but all of us can change our tomorrows.

  ~ Colin Powell quotes

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• All the things that truly matter--beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace--arise from beyond the mind.

  ~ Ekhart Tolle quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Creativity, Love, Mind, Joy, Beauty, Peace

• 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

  Motivational Quotes on: Fear, War, Live, New, Warrior, Steven Pressfield, Win

• The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

  ~ Mark Twain quotes

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• As used in economics the term "capital" would be defined as follows: Capital refers to resources withheld from immediate consumption in the expectation of greater future returns. However controversial a topic this has been, capital has been the main–if not the only–way of achieving progress, even in violently anticapitalist, socialist countries. A dam, a hospital, a university, a cathedral, or a national park cannot be built without using up resources that would be easier to consume immediately, and none of them would be built at all unless they were believed to provide some greater returns in the future.

  ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Good Business

  Famous Quotes on: Business, Sin, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Future, Zen, Follow, Good, Great, Progress, Expect, Believe

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