George Bernard Shaw Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by George Bernard Shaw
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
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We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw 
Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
Do not do unto others
as you expect they should do unto you.
Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw
Write Sayings
Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill
If you can speak what you will never hear,
if you can write what you will never read,
you have done rare things.
- Henry David Thoreau
Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write.
Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What a book a devil's chaplain might write
on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low,
and horribly cruel work of nature!
- Charles Darwin
On Sayings
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
My happiness depends on me.
- A Course in Miracles
It is easier to put on slippers
than to carpet the entire world
- Al Franken
Hold on... Joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I take the helm on my life voyage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I skip on the beach, and play with the waves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
The Divine is all in the perspective we take on it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The show must go on.
- Proverb
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
- Clare Boothe Luce
Work out your own salvation.
Do not depend on others.
- The Buddha
Begin each day as if it were on purpose.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Today... maybe I can take one step
on that profoundly complex path to peace.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Judgment is discernment on a bad hair day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You must live in the present,
launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
Know the power of choice.
Fly life on free wings,
and sing to its glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- Henry David Thoreau
Today is your day to Spread Wing and Soar.
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We may have all come on different ships,
but we're in the same boat now.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am not the same having seen the moon shine
on the other side of the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Hitch a Ride on the River of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds
on the heel that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain
Keep your feet firmly planted on the ground
as you reach for the stars.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An "enemy" is a mirage -
an image of self reflected on the sands of Hell.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
- Lao Tzu
You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox
Do not dwell in the past,
do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- The Buddha
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