George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Browse 17 quotes from George Bernard Shaw, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
— George Bernard Shaw
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
— George Bernard Shaw
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
— George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change and those that cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
— George Bernard Shaw
Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.
— George Bernard Shaw
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most people dread it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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
People are always blaming 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
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
— George Bernard Shaw
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
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
— George Bernard Shaw
We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
— George Bernard Shaw
Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself.
— George Bernard Shaw
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
— George Bernard Shaw
I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
— George Bernard Shaw
We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
— George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
— George Bernard Shaw

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