“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."
- Oscar Wilde
Compassion
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde
Creativity
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
- Oscar Wilde
Self-confidence
"You are beautiful when you are happy."
- Oscar Wilde
Self-esteem
"Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back."
- Oscar Wilde
Wisdom
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity