Inspiration Quote by Oscar Wilde — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”

“But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.”

“The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities.... A fresh mode of Beauty is absolutely distasteful to them, and whenever it appears they get so angry and bewildered that they always use two stupid expressions--one is that the work of art is grossly unintelligible; the other, that the work of art is grossly immoral. What they mean by these words seems to me to be this. When they say a work is grossly unintelligible, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is new; when they describe a work as grossly immoral, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is true.”

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

“You can observe a lot just by watching.”

“You can be what you want to be. You have the power within and we will help you always.”

“Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.”

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.”