Inspirational Quotations by George Bernard Shaw
- Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more
than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
- No question is so difficult to answer
as that to which the answer is obvious.
- If you have an apple and I have an apple
and we exchange these apples then
you and I will still each have one apple.
But if you have an idea and I have an idea
and we exchange these ideas,
then each of us will have two ideas.
- Some look at things that are, and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
- We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- Success does not consist in never making mistakes
but in never making the same one a second time.
- People are always blaming circumstances for what they are.
I do not believe in circumstances. The people that get on
in this world are the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, they make them.
- The problem with communication is the illusion that it has been achieved.
- If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet,
you'd best teach it to dance.
- The power of accurate observation is frequently
called cynicism by those who don't have it.