Fear of Poverty?

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

George Bernard Shaw

Circumstances: Friend or Foe?

This is my all time favourite quote. I probably heard it 100 times already, and it's still my favourite.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. 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.
- George Bernard Shaw

A Taste of the 'True Joy' of Life

This is the true joy in life – the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I’ve 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

Education, please!

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
Hence University education.
- George Bernard Shaw

Don't Resist!

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
- George Bernard Shaw

Never do that...

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig.
You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
- George Bernard Shaw