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.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Books and titles linked to this author
Advice to a Young Critic
Androcles and the Lion
Authors on Film
Back to Methuselah
Caesar and Cleopatra
Candida
Dramatic opinions and essays
Dramatic Opinions and Essays, volume 2
Fanny's First Play
Getting Married
Heartbreak House
Immaturity
John Bull's Other Island
Major Barbara
Man and Superman
Misalliance
Misalliance/The Dark Lady of the Sonnets/Fanny's First Play with a Treatise on Parents and Children
Mrs. Warren's Profession
Music in London
My Fair Lady
Overruled
Pygmalion
Pygmalion and Related Readings
Saint Joan
The Doctor's Dilemma: A Tragedy
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism
The Irrational Knot
The Philanderer
The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home
The Quintessence of Ibsenism
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy it there.
Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you may as well make it dance.
Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
A great devotee of the gospel of getting on.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Most people do not pray they only beg.
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery.
He knows nothing he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.
The philosopher is Nature's pilot - and there you have our difference to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it.