George Bernard Shaw Quotes on Integrity
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'If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling. Corrupt successes, disgraceful failures, or sheeplike vegetation are all it has to offer. I prefer Art, which gives me a sixth sense of beauty, with self-respect: perhaps also an immortal reputation in return for honest endeavour in a labour of love.'
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'A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.'
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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
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It is not the sale of my soul that troubles me: I have sold it too often to care about that. I have sold it for a professorship. I have sold it for an income. [...] What is all human conduct but the daily and hourly sale of our souls for trifles?