George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Struggle

• 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.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Motivational, Dog, Struggle

• In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Struggle, Ambition, Novices

• 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

• All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Struggle, Taken, Steps

• Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mother, Struggle, Artist

  'Man and Superman' (1903) act 1

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