The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George Eliot
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
George Eliot
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
George Eliot
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
George Eliot
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
George Eliot
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
George Eliot
We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.
George Eliot
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
George Eliot
What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
George Eliot
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
George Eliot
Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade.
George Eliot
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
George Eliot
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot
It's never too late to be who you might have been.
George Eliot
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
George Eliot
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George Eliot
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
George Eliot
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
George Eliot
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
George Eliot
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
George Eliot
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George Eliot
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
George Eliot
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
George Eliot
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
George Eliot
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
George Eliot
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
George Eliot
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
George Eliot
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot
