George Bernard Shaw Quote?

Factual Questions
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Can someone of a literary bent help me? I am going crazy trying to find a quotation by G B Shaw-it’s about failure…some thing like " …a lifetime of failure is a far more honorable thing than a life without trying". I really want to find the context of this one! (So far my life is resembling continous failure!

2

I’m a big G.B. Shaw fan, but that one doesn’t ring a bell.

I think there’s a concordance in The Collected Work of George Bernard Shaw. You might try looking through that.

3

The following two sites refer to failure but not directly to the quote, though the works cited on Success and Failure may be useful:

http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/authors/quotes_shaw_georgebernard.html

http://www.ag.wastholm.net/author/George_Bernard_Shaw

The following site has the quotation that you seek but as link that is blind:

http://www.geocities.com/gunjansaraf/shaw.htm

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

Also:

http://www.cp-tel.net/miller/BilLee/quotes/Shaw.html

with no cite

http://www.irishclans.com/articles/famirish/shawgb.html

ditto

However:

http://www.bemorecreative.com/one/190.htm

cites: In “The International Thesaurus of Quotations,” by Rhoda Thomas Tripp, 1995.
I suspect that he may have said it in an interview rather than written it in a book or article as I cannot find a reference anywhere. You may need to try an Autobiography.

Sorry not to be able to give a cite, but at leat you have the correct quote.

4

My motto is G.K. Chesterton’s: “Anything worth doing at all is worth doing badly.” That’s badly quoted. The Quotemeister says it is “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”