Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
BeliefBiasPerception The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
HealthPurposeLiving FullyNo Regrets 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.
PowerIllusionAuthorityCreationInfluence Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
HeresyJudgmentToleranceConformity The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
Personal SalvationSelfishnessRejectionIndividualismUniversal Concern The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!
ExperienceLearningHuman NatureWisdom We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
SuccessControversyIndividualityImpact The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
LovePerceptionIndividuality Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
PatriotismPeace You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
BurdensAttachmentLetting GoSelf-Limitation People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
FamilyServiceSocietyParenting Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
KnowledgeEducationPhilosophyScienceArt A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
OwnershipCommunityEnrichmentPossessionEnjoyment I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.
ArtSelf-discoveryReflectionSoul You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
IndifferenceInhumanityMoral FailureEmotional DetachmentConsequence The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
Women's RoleParentingSelf-CareHealth and NutritionSocietal Contributions If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.
EthicsIntegrityFocusCommitment The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
DesireLossAttainmentTragedy There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
GrowthPatienceNatureManagementSelf-Improvement Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
LoveResilience All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
PerseveranceResilienceWork EthicGrowth Mindset When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
TrustDeceptionConsequence The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
KnowledgeLearningCourageHuman LimitationsBravery A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
MiraclesLife Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
FamilyAcceptanceHumorResilience If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
SportsCompetitionTime Efficiency Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
Critical ThinkingTruth We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
AccountabilityPersonal GrowthTransformationEfficiencyResilience We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
WisdomResponsibilityFuture We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
AdmirationPatriotismEgoPublic PerceptionSelf-Expression Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
DependenceInterdependenceHuman Connection Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
HealthPurposeDirectionContentment Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
IdentityPatriotismNational PrideExclusivityLoyalty Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
PlayingYouthAgingMindset We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
MarriageSocial ClassFacilitiesDesertion Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
ImaginationVisionInnovationPossibility Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.