George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Inspirational
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
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The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
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I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.
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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
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You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
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Success covers a multitude of blunders.
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Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.
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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?
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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
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To be a champion you must live like one.
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