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Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

"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