115 quotes
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
Personal Growth
"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."
- George Bernard Shaw
Education
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
- George Bernard Shaw
Creativity
"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."
- George Bernard Shaw
Family
"Liberty is the breath of life to nations."
- George Bernard Shaw
Belief
"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
- George Bernard Shaw
Change
"There is no love sincerer than the love of food."
- George Bernard Shaw
Love
"Don’t wait for the right opportunity: create it."
- George Bernard Shaw
Empowerment
"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."
- George Bernard Shaw
Creativity
""A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.""
- George Bernard Shaw
Learning from Mistakes
"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."
- George Bernard Shaw
Inspiration
"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
- George Bernard Shaw
Change
"Don’t Wait for Opportunity, Create it."
- George Bernard Shaw
Ambition
"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."
- George Bernard Shaw
Ambition
"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
Personal Growth
"Every man over forty is a scoundrel."
- George Bernard Shaw
Reflection
"There is no sincere love than the love of food."
- George Bernard Shaw
Love
"Life is about creating yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
Self-improvement
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
- George Bernard Shaw
Learning from Mistakes
"Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing."
- George Bernard Shaw
Reflection
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
- George Bernard Shaw
Teamwork
"Whisky is liquid sunshine."
- George Bernard Shaw
Joy
"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."
- George Bernard Shaw
Creativity
"Don’t Wait for Opportunity, Create it"
- George Bernard Shaw
Ambition
"Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born."
- George Bernard Shaw
Transformation
"We learn from history that we learn nothing from history."
- George Bernard Shaw
Learning from Mistakes
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them."
- George Bernard Shaw
Overcoming Obstacles
"I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve."
- George Bernard Shaw
Service
"“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”"
- George Bernard Shaw
Personal Growth
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
- George Bernard Shaw
Love
"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
Education
"You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’"
- George Bernard Shaw
Motivation
"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do."
- George Bernard Shaw
Responsibility
"Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything."
- George Bernard Shaw
Self-awareness
"The problem with her is that she lacks both the power and the speech to communicate."
- George Bernard Shaw
Awareness
"Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby."
- George Bernard Shaw
Contentment
"“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”"
- George Bernard Shaw
Change
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people live."
- George Bernard Shaw
Philosophy
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
- George Bernard Shaw
Change
"Life isn’t about finding yourself; life is all about creating yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
Personal Growth
"Some men see things as they are and say why—I dream things that never were and say why not."
- George Bernard Shaw
Ambition
"You use a glass mirror to see your face. You use works of art to see your soul."
- George Bernard Shaw
Creativity
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will."
- George Bernard Shaw
Creativity
"People Become Attached To Their Burdens Sometimes More Than The Burdens Are Attached To Them."
- George Bernard Shaw
Awareness
"Dance is the vertical expression of a horizontal desire, made legal by music."
- George Bernard Shaw
Joy
"Don’t wait for the opportunity. Create it."
- George Bernard Shaw
Motivation
"Don’t wait for opportunity, create it."
- George Bernard Shaw
Success
"I really don’t think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there."
- George Bernard Shaw
Spirituality
""Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.""
- George Bernard Shaw
Education
"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."
- George Bernard Shaw
Philosophy
"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."
- George Bernard Shaw
Philosophy
"Dance is the perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."
- George Bernard Shaw
Philosophy
"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."
- George Bernard Shaw
Family
"Animals are my friends…and I don’t eat my friends."
- George Bernard Shaw
Compassion
"We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing!"
- George Bernard Shaw
Joy
""We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.""
- George Bernard Shaw
Personal Growth
"If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion."
- George Bernard Shaw
Awareness
"A happy family is merely an earlier heaven."
- George Bernard Shaw
Family
"Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
Forgiveness
"In heaven an angel is nobody in particular."
- George Bernard Shaw
Philosophy
"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."
- George Bernard Shaw
Wisdom
"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
Health
"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them."
- George Bernard Shaw
Awareness
"When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters anymore. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."
- George Bernard Shaw
Peace
"The great advantage of a hotel is that it’s a refuge from home life."
- George Bernard Shaw
Reflection
"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute."
- George Bernard Shaw
Philosophy
"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
- George Bernard Shaw
Knowledge
"When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices."
- George Bernard Shaw
Family
"To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching."
- George Bernard Shaw
Hope
"When I was young, I observed that 9 out of 10 things I did were failures. So I did 10 times more work."
- George Bernard Shaw
Hard Work
"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them."
- George Bernard Shaw
Taking Risks
"Success does not consist in never making mistakes, but in never making the same one a second time."
- George Bernard Shaw
Learning from Mistakes
"You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing."
- George Bernard Shaw
Positivity
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
- George Bernard Shaw
Positivity
"We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing."
- George Bernard Shaw
Positivity
"You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing."
- George Bernard Shaw
Happiness
"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
- George Bernard Shaw
Philosophy
"We don’t stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing."
- George Bernard Shaw
Personal Growth
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
- George Bernard Shaw
Responsibility
"Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in your heart that only love can fill."
- George Bernard Shaw
Love
"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."
- George Bernard Shaw
Love
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
- George Bernard Shaw
Philosophy
"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."
- George Bernard Shaw
Philosophy
""Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.""
- George Bernard Shaw
Philosophy
"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not."
- George Bernard Shaw
Health
"Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything."
- George Bernard Shaw
Self-awareness
"Heartbreak is life educating us."
- George Bernard Shaw
Healing
"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile."
- George Bernard Shaw
Healing
"You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw
Imagination
"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."
- George Bernard Shaw
Responsibility
"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends."
- George Bernard Shaw
Compassion
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
- George Bernard Shaw
Responsibility
"“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”"
- George Bernard Shaw
Peace
"“Liberty is the breath of life to nations.”"
- George Bernard Shaw
Liberation
"Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it."
- George Bernard Shaw
Belief in Self
"The only real disappointment in life is the failure to try."
- George Bernard Shaw
Motivation
"A life spent making mistakes is more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
- George Bernard Shaw
Growth
"We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
- George Bernard Shaw
Joy
"He knows nothing and thinks that he knows everything. That points to a political career."
- George Bernard Shaw
Insight
"You don’t stop laughing when you grow old. You grow old when you stop laughing."
- George Bernard Shaw
Joy
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."
- George Bernard Shaw
Overcoming Obstacles
"Life is about creating yourself, not finding yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
Self-improvement
"Beware false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
- George Bernard Shaw
Knowledge
"After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere."
- George Bernard Shaw
Philosophy
"Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
Self-improvement
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing."
- George Bernard Shaw
Personal Growth
"When I was young, I observed that nine out of 10 things I did were failures. So I did 10 times more work."
- George Bernard Shaw
Hard Work
""Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.""
- George Bernard Shaw
Change
"You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’?"
- George Bernard Shaw
Inspiration
"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
- George Bernard Shaw
Adversity
"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life."
- George Bernard Shaw
Adversity
"I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a Champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer."
- George Bernard Shaw
Belief
""Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.""
- George Bernard Shaw
Adaptation
"Life isn’t about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
Personal Growth
"Few people think more than two or three times a year. I’ve made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."
- George Bernard Shaw
Creativity