Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
LifeMiracles Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
LoveResilience All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
AttainmentDesireLossTragedy There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
ArtReflectionSelf-DiscoverySoul You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
CommitmentEthicsFocusIntegrity The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
ControversyImpactIndividualitySuccess The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
AuthorityCreationIllusionInfluencePower Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
BraveryCourageHuman LimitationsKnowledgeLearning 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.
BeliefBiasPerception The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
AcceptanceFamilyHumorResilience If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
AttachmentBurdensLetting GoSelf-Limitation People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
IndividualismPersonal SalvationRejectionSelfishnessUniversal 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!
IndividualityLovePerception Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
ConsequenceEmotional DetachmentIndifferenceInhumanityMoral Failure The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
PatriotismPeace You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
ConsequenceDeceptionTrust The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
Health and NutritionParentingSelf-careSocietal ContributionsWomen S Role 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.
ArtEducationKnowledgePhilosophyScience A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Growth MindsetPerseveranceResilienceWork Ethic When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
FamilyParentingServiceSociety Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
HealthLiving FullyNo RegretsPurpose 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.
ExperienceHuman NatureLearningWisdom We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
GrowthManagementNaturePatienceSelf-Improvement Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.