“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Don’t wait for the right opportunity: create it.”
“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”
“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.”
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
“After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.”
“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.”
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
“War does not decide who is right but who is left.”
“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.”
“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”
“Youth is wasted on the young.”
“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”
“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
“Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.”
“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”
“English is the easiest language to speak badly.”
“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”
“To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.”
“Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers.”
“A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.”
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”
“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.”
“Whisky is liquid sunshine.”
“Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.”
“My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.”
“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”
“I’m not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.”
“The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.”
“If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.”
“All progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
“A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.”
“Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.”
“The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.”
“If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.”
“Most people do not pray; they only beg.”
“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
“The harder I work the more I live.”
“The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.”
“Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.”
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