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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
by 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
Related topics: Motivational Positive Values Life Human-Nature Psychology Self-Confidence Self-Esteem
Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
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.
- George Bernard Shaw
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in the world are the people who
get up and look for the circumstances they want,
and if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- 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
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
- George Bernard Shaw
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
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No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Oprah Winfrey
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
- Carl Jung
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every form of addiction is bad,
no matter whether the narcotic
be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
- Carl Jung
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
If I had no sense of humor,
I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver
Oh no, I can't do anything to the death.
Doctor's orders. You see, I have this ulcer condition,
and death is the worst thing for it.
- the movie Love and Death
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
There is no security on this Earth,
there is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
Suspended between earth and sky,
my humanity draws from both,
my tendrils reach for the energies of each.
Spirit and Ground - equal yet opposite,
the lightness and the solidarity,
the ephemeral and the substantial.
The substantial is no more and no less
than the ephemeral - merely different.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth,
and that is that no instruction book came with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
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