George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Mistakes

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2451, e-artnow

• Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Success, Time

• Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mistake, Political, Politics

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “Saint Joan”, p.134, Read Books Ltd

• Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mistake, Justice, Done

• The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Happiness, Mistake, Men

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5803, e-artnow

• Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mistake, Fighting, Slavery

  Nelly Sachs, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme (1971). “Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme”

• All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mistake, Struggle, Trying

• We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

  George Bernard Shaw

  God, Mistake, Cancer

• The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mistake, Men, He Man

• Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mistake, Wonderful, Ends

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