George Bernard Shaw Quotes

“Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.”

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”

“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.”

“We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

“You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself.”

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most people dread it.”

“The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will.”

“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.”

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“Progress is impossible without change and those that cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.”

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

“We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.”

“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.”