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:-

• When each of these three elements of vision--concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment--are present, business is transformed from a tool for making profits into a creative, humane experiment for improving life.

  ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Good Business

  Inspirational Quotes on: Excellence, Business, Vision, Sin, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Zen, Good, Life, People, Creative

• Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to achieve, you can depend upon its automatic guidance system to take you to that goal much better than "you" ever could by conscious thought. "You" supply the goal by thinking in terms of end results. Your automatic mechanism then supplies the means whereby.

  ~ Maxwell Maltz quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Goals, Think, Thinking, Better, Results, Lies, Dance, Give, Thought, Achieve, Creative

• 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

• The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the

  ~ Bill Gates quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Vision, Bill Gates, Power, Work, Giving, Empowering

• No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Character

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