George Bernard Shaw
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
Ideas... they have the power
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Love is a many splendered thing.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Think of me as a sex symbol for men who don't give a damn.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion. I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion. Love is my religion. And I could die for that. I could die for you.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Believe in yourself.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
Happiness is a choice.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
One million dollars !
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Would you like to play a game ?
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf ? Didn't you hear 'em ? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, the excitement, and the mystery of the world we live in.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.