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

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

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.

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

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

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw
Motivational, Happiness, Happy

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
Motivational, Spiritual, Art
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.2919, e-artnow

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

George Bernard Shaw
Motivational, Perfection, Excellence
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.2809, e-artnow

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Motivational, Success
"Appropriate Technology: A Focus for the Nineties". Book by Robert William Stevens, 1991.

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

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

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Motivational, Respect
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.2405, e-artnow

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

George Bernard Shaw
Motivational, Ambition, Long
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.2064, e-artnow

This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

George Bernard Shaw
Motivational, Happiness, Laughter
Man and Superman epistle dedicatory (1903)

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