George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw- "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."


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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

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.

George Bernard Shaw

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

George Bernard Shaw

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

George Bernard Shaw

Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?

George Bernard Shaw

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

George Bernard Shaw

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

George Bernard Shaw

You see things; and you say “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say “Why not?”

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

George Bernard Shaw

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

George Bernard Shaw

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

George Bernard Shaw

A man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

George Bernard Shaw

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

George Bernard Shaw

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

George Bernard Shaw

Very few people can afford to be poor.

George Bernard Shaw

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

George Bernard Shaw

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

George Bernard Shaw

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

George Bernard Shaw

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

George Bernard Shaw

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

George Bernard Shaw

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

George Bernard Shaw

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

George Bernard Shaw

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

George Bernard Shaw

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

George Bernard Shaw

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

George Bernard Shaw

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

George Bernard Shaw

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

George Bernard Shaw

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

George Bernard Shaw

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

George Bernard Shaw

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

George Bernard Shaw

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

George Bernard Shaw

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

George Bernard Shaw