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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
— Les Brown
On Confidence
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
— Oscar Wilde
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
— Oscar Wilde
On Purpose
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
— Oscar Wilde
On Focus & Distraction
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
— Oscar Wilde
On Money, Plainly
Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.
— Oscar Wilde
On Purpose
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
— Oscar Wilde
On Purpose
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken fro…
— Oscar Wilde
On Money, Plainly
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
— Oscar Wilde
On Money, Plainly
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
— Oscar Wilde
On Confidence
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
— Oscar Wilde
On the Working Life
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
— Oscar Wilde
On Confidence
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
— Oscar Wilde
On the Working Life
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
— Charles Dickens
On Purpose
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
— Charles Dickens
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have s…
— Charles Dickens
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness.
— Charles Dickens
On Money, Plainly
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants…
— Charles Caleb Colton
On Money, Plainly
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
On Purpose
Compassion is the chief law of human existence.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
On Purpose
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
On Purpose
If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
On Discipline
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
On Purpose
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
On Confidence
A new philosophy, a way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much pat…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
On Discipline
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
On Confidence
Above all, don't lie to yourself.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
On Discipline
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
On Starting Over
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
On Focus & Distraction
Beauty will save the world.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
On Purpose