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:-

• Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.

  ~ Thomas J. Watson quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Success, Failure, Fail, Give, Simple

• The best players in any high-stakes field - business, entertainment, law, surgery, as well as sport - recognize that pressure occurs at the moments when meaningful accomplishment is possible. In fact, that is the reason why performers perform: for the opportunity to tackle challenges head on, to do something significant, to demonstrate what their hard work and talent can produce.

  ~ John Eliot, Ph.D. quotes from Overachievement: The New Model for Exceptional Performance

  Inspirational Quotes on: The Moment, Business, Challenges, Sin, John Eliot, Overachievement, Act, New, Work, Best, Reason, Achievement, Challenge, Accomplishment, Talent

• Taking responsibility means being aware of where and when you are NOT taking responsibility so that you can eventually change.

  ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

  Inspirational Quotes on: Responsibility, Fear, Change, War, Aware, Feel

• A problem can not be solved with the same consciousness that created it.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Attitude, Perception

• To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass.

  ~ Anne Lamott quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Power, Mind

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