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


-George Bernard Shaw

posted in fear


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

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"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."

-George Bernard Shaw

workView Quote
"When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work."

-George Bernard Shaw

workView Quote
"The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."

-George Bernard Shaw

womenView Quote
"If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all."

-George Bernard Shaw

womenView Quote
"Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."

-George Bernard Shaw

womenView Quote
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."

-George Bernard Shaw

wisdomView Quote

More Quotes About fear

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface."

-Arianna Huffington

fearView Quote
"You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear."

-Candace Bushnell

fearView Quote
"I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context."

-Nicholas Hoult

fearView Quote
"Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine."

-Camille Claudel

fearView Quote
"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."

-John B. S. Haldane

fearView Quote
"Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it."

-Lionel Richie

fearView Quote