My reputation grows with every failure.... -George Bernard Shaw

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My reputation grows with every failure.

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George Bernard Shaw Quotes to Explore

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race....
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it....
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children....
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad....
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office....
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous....
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all....
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own....
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world....
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power....

Failure Quotes to Explore

Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an o...
I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure....
Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life ...
I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments wh...
We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the wo...
I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think....
I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way...
Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and somethi...
As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure....
Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keep...