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

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

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Motivational, Success
Letter to Ellen Terry, 28 Aug. 1896

If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Done, Great Things

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Life, Art
George Bernard Shaw (1988). “Collected letters: 1926-1950”, Vintage

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Vices, Virtue
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, 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.4489, e-artnow

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Time, Pain

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Life, Happiness
Candida (1898) act 1

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Clever, Stupid
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, 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.912, e-artnow

Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Waste, Worst
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.3004, e-artnow

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.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Success, Beauty
Major Barbara (1907) preface

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Motivational, Friendship

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Get Well, Communication
"Getting Married (Mrs. George)". Play by George Bernard Shaw, May 12, 1908.

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Night, Play

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Art, Simple
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.3155, e-artnow

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Animal, Earth

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

George Bernard Shaw
Love, Life, Sex

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Success, Nature
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.3646, e-artnow

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Men, Differences
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.3853, e-artnow

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.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Success, Nature

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Funny, Life

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Would Be, Amusement

Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Principles, Excuse
1896 Waiter to Fergus Crampton. You Never Can Tell, act 2.

Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Dancing, Ballet
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, 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.3990, e-artnow

The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Real, Students
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.278, e-artnow

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