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:-

• Remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered.

  ~ Robin Sharma quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Vision, Think, Laugh, Great, Leader

• It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

  ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

  Famous Quotes on: Think, Acting, Thinking, Act, Work

• Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.

  ~ Mary Baker Eddy quotes from Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896

  Self-Development Quotes on: God, Greatness, Great, Light, Shine

• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Vision

• Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Death, Life

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