Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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.
IndividualityLovePerception Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
ArtReflectionSelf-DiscoverySoul You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
LoveResilience All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
AttachmentBurdensLetting GoSelf-Limitation People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
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.
ConformityHeresyJudgmentTolerance The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
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!
GrowthManagementNaturePatienceSelf-Improvement Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
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.
PatriotismPeace You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
AuthorityCreationIllusionInfluencePower Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
AttainmentDesireLossTragedy There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
AcceptanceFamilyHumorResilience If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
LifeMiracles Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
ControversyImpactIndividualitySuccess The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
CommitmentEthicsFocusIntegrity The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
CommunityEnjoymentEnrichmentOwnershipPossession I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.
ArtEducationKnowledgePhilosophyScience A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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.
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.