Oscar Wilde Quotes

India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.

Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.

Let each person in relationship worry about Self-what Self is being, doing, and having; what Self is wanting, asking, giving; what Self is seeking, creating, experiencing, and all relationships would magnificently serve their purpose-and their participants!

Love is not about others; love is a practice of self-mastery.

Teach him to deny himself.

I've always been a person who thinks it's really important to better themselves.

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.

I never stop looking for things to try and make myself better.

If I stayed in this game for individual achievements, I don't think I'd still be playing.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

We can still do good for others and do good for ourselves. I would wither and die, truthfully. I need to be somewhere where the light's on me.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.