George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright and critic, 1856-1950
18 quotes.
Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- Don’t wait for the right opportunity: create it.
- Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
- Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
- Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
- Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
- No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it well, ever loses his self-respect.
- Progress is impossible without change
- Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
- The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
- Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
- When I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.
- You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
- You see things and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were and I say ‘Why not?
- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore ALL progress depends on the unreasonable man.