Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Hard WorkLiving FullyJoy I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
TrustDeceptionConsequence The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
Parental AffectionHuman NatureChildhood The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
UnforgivenessGrudgesSelf-ForgivenessCaution Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
SocialismCapitalismLand Ownership Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.
LovePerceptionIndividuality Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
EthicsIntegrityFocusCommitment The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
SocialismCapitalismPrivate PropertyIncome Distribution In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.
GodTheologyInterpretationPersonhood The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.
Critical ThinkingTruth We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
Women's RolePowerInfluence Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
SocialismPropertyEquality Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
RespectabilityHypocrisySocial PressureMoral Compromise Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
ConfidenceOptimismFearlessness Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
JournalismDecisivenessExperience A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
DesireLossAttainmentTragedy There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
MiseryHappinessOccupation The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
ImaginationCreationDesireWill Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
DangerIndifferenceAge Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
ActionConscienceResponsibilityMorality Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
ImaginationVisionInnovationPossibility Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.
MistakeActionLearning A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
DualityLife's ComplexityPerspective Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
ExperienceWisdomSurvival You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
HonestyIntegrityMoral Education I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
Self-ReflectionUniversalityTimelessnessAuthorshipPersonal Experience The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
IntelligenceStatisticsInsight It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
PovertyUselessnessSocial Issues Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
ParentingHumilityGuidanceSelf-Awareness If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
MindsetIntellectSelf-Awareness One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
HeartbreakPainPeaceAcceptance 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.
DemocracyGovernanceResponsibility Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
VitalityInstinctsSelf-assertionInner Strength Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.