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This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world

This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, 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 am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw
Selfish, True Joy, Long

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

George Bernard Shaw
Ignorance, Knowledge, Hunting
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5797, e-artnow

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

George Bernard Shaw
Funny, Motivational, Humorous

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

George Bernard Shaw
Lunatic Asylums, Used, Planets

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Perseverance, Business

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Motivational, Positive
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

George Bernard Shaw
Sad, Encouragement, Writing

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.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Motivational, Change
Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

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

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2451, e-artnow

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

George Bernard Shaw
Dirty, Fighting, Naughty

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Funny, Witty
Everybody's Political What's What? ch. 30 (1944)

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

George Bernard Shaw
Relationship, Sarcastic, Funny Inspirational

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

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Success, Time

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

George Bernard Shaw
Dance, Sexy, Funny Sex
In New Statesman 23 Mar. 1962

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Change, Attitude
"Everybody's political what's what?" by George Bernard Shaw, Chapter XXXVII, (p. 330), 1944.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

George Bernard Shaw
Humor, Debt, Socialism

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

George Bernard Shaw
War, Doe, Morality

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

George Bernard Shaw
Motivational, Dog, Struggle

Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.

George Bernard Shaw
Waiting, Bully, Promise

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

George Bernard Shaw
Humor, Fire, Paper

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

George Bernard Shaw
Teacher, Teaching, Desire
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.2005, e-artnow

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

George Bernard Shaw
Running, Loss, Office

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

George Bernard Shaw
America, World, Modern

Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

George Bernard Shaw
Opportunity, Waiting

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