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:-

• The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I know from research and personal experimentation with more than a dozen languages that (1) adults can learn languages much faster than children when constant 9-5 work is removed and that (2) it is possible to become conversationally fluent in any language in six months or less. At four hours per day, six months can be whittled down to less than three months.

  ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

  Self-Development Quotes on: Learn, Zen, Persona, Work, Rest, Becoming

• From tonight onwards, take complete control of your life. Decide, once and for all, to be the master of your fate. Run your own race. Discover your calling and you will start to experience the ecstasy of an inspired life.  

  ~ Robin Sharma quotes from The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

• A clever man commits no minor blunders.

  ~ Goethe quotes

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• We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

  ~ Marcel Proust quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Experience

• A state of expectancy is a great assetl; a state of uncertainty--one moment thinking "perhaps" and the next moment thinking "I don't know"--will never get desired results.

  ~ Ernest Holmes quotes from Change Your Life

  Inspirational Quotes on: Change, Desire, Think, Thinking, Great, Life, Results, Expect

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