George Bernard Shaw Quotes

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

• failure
• mistakes
• initiative

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

• democracy

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

• democracy

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

• circumstance

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

• imagination
• subconscious

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

• friends

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

• thought
• change
• progress

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. Life is no brief candle to me. It's a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

• death
• life

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I do not believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them.

• circumstance
• initiative