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:-

• Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow.

  ~ Sun Tzu quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Change, Flow, Great

• Some readers are going to snort at the idea of making so much over a hackneyed proverb like “Don’t cry over spilt milk.” I know it is trite, commonplace, a platitude. I know you have heard it a thousand times. But I also know that these hackneyed proverbs contain the very essence of the distilled wisdom of all ages. They have come out of the fiery experience of the human race and have been handed down through countless generations. If you were to read everything that has ever been written about worry by the great scholars of all time, you would never read anything more basic or more profound than such hackneyed proverbs as “Don’t cross your bridges until you come to them” and “Don’t cry over spilt milk.” If we only applied those two proverbs--instead of snorting at them--we wouldn’t need this book at all. In fact, if we applied most of the old proverbs, we would lead almost perfect lives. However, knowledge isn’t power until it is applied; and the purpose of this book is to remind you of what you already know and to kick you in the shins and inspire you to do something about applying it.

  ~ Dale Carnegie quotes

• When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites—to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance—there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from The Teachings of Don Juan

  Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Fear, Defeat

• You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Fear

• There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, “Failure is not an option.”

  ~ Donny Deutsch quotes from Often Wrong Never in Doubt

  Self-Development Quotes on: Business, Failure, Sin, Life, Fail

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