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:-

• Some of the steps you take may end up being detours or out-and-out mistakes. By staying focused on your vision, though, you’ll find even those steps useful in the creating process.

  ~ David Emerald quotes from The Power of TED*

  Famous Quotes on: Focus, Vision, David Emerald, Yin, Power, Mistake

• God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Risk, God

• Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from A Separate Reality

  Motivational Quotes on: Vision, Intent, Warrior, Defeat

• The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.

  ~ Aristotle Onassis quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Success, Aristotle, Secret, Body, Now

• Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

  ~ Winston Churchill quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Leadership, Leader

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