George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Success
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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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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
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I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
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Success covers a multitude of blunders.
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All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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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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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
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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.
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