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:-

• 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

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

• Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.

  ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Good Business

  Famous Quotes on: Business, Learn, Learning, Sin, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Zen, Good, Results, Becoming

• Creative minds have already embraced the symbolic nature of success and failure…failure, they say, is a "step on the road to success…"

  ~ Unknown quotes from Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation

  Self-Development Quotes on: Success, Failure, Unknown, Mistake, Mind, Nature, Fail, Creative

• Apathy can only be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: First, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

  ~ Arnold Toynbee quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Vision, Enthusiasm, Act, Yin, Path, Ideal, Practice

• Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.

  ~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Learning, Beauty

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