George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Motivational
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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
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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.
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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
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A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
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You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.
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Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
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