George Bernard Shaw Quotes

George Bernard Shaw was a famous Irish playwright, critic, and socialist. This is a collection of some of the best George Bernard Shaw quotes for inspiration.

George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin in 1856. He moved to London aged 19, where he wrote several novels without much success.

However his success came from his playwriting abilities, he wrote over 60 and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1925.

George died in 1950 at the grand old age of 94.

A Top 10 List of
George Bernard Shaw quotes

1:

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

- George Bernard Shaw

2:

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

- George Bernard Shaw

3:

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

- George Bernard Shaw

4:

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

- George Bernard Shaw

5:

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

- George Bernard Shaw

6:

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

- George Bernard Shaw

7:

"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

8:

"A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out."

- George Bernard Shaw

9:

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."

- George Bernard Shaw

10:

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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More George Bernard Shaw quotes...

"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

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."

- George Bernard Shaw

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"It is a curious sensation:
the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling.
When your heart is broken,
your boats are burned: nothing matters any more.
It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."

- George Bernard Shaw

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"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

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"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

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