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:-

• Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.

  ~ Dale Dauten quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Wisdom, Think, Skill

• If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

  ~ Alberto Salazar quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Achieve

• No matter how big and touch a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step toward solution. Do something.

  ~ George F. Nordenholt quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: War, Solution, Problem

• Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example, may be close to freezing, utterly exhausted, and in danger of falling into a bottomless crevasse, yet he wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Sipping a piña colada under a palm tree at the edge of the turquoise ocean is idyllic, but it just doesn't compare to the exhilaration he feels on the windswept ridge.

  ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Good Business

  Inspirational Quotes on: Business, Sin, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Zen, Stress, Good, Edge, Fall, Joy, Win

• Elevated levels of confidence are omnipresent among history’s greatest overachievers. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous men in the world even before he signed the Declaration of Independence once lamented about humility, “I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue.”

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

  Motivational Quotes on: Confidence, Humility, Success, Benjamin Franklin, John Eliot, Overachievement, New, Great, Virtue, Achievement, Independence, Achieve, History

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