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:-

• As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case of leveling the ground, if, though tipping only one basketful, I am going forward, then I shall be making progress.

  ~ Confucius quotes from The Analects

  Famous Quotes on: Action, Perseverance

• Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

  Inspirational Quotes on: Think, Thinking, Great, Labor, People

• Don't try to be unafraid. That is impossible. Rather, go ahead while being afraid. That is the entire secret for abolishing fear. The Supermind teaches us to have no self-concern at all. Whatever happens to you, act as though it happened to someone else.

  ~ Vernon Howard quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Fear, Teach, War, Secret, Act, Mind, Vernon Howard, Try, Impossible

• Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose.

  ~ T. Harv Eker quotes from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

  Famous Quotes on: Secret, Game, Mind, Money, People, Poor, Rich, Win

• To the true innovator, there’s no such thing as a mistake. Each miscue is considered part of the process, a marker on the map that says where not to go.

  ~ Unknown quotes from Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation

  Famous Quotes on: Unknown, Mistake

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