The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
– George Eliot
Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
– George Eliot
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
– George Eliot
Selfish- a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.
– George Eliot
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
– George Eliot
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
– George Eliot
Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
– George Eliot
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
– George Eliot
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
– George Eliot
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
– George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
– George Eliot
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
– George Eliot
Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are.
– George Eliot
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
– George Eliot
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
– George Eliot
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
– George Eliot
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
– George Eliot
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
– George Eliot
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
– George Eliot
People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.
– George Eliot
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
– George Eliot
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
– George Eliot
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
– George Eliot
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
– George Eliot
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
– George Eliot
One can begin so many things with a new person! – even begin to be a better man.
– George Eliot
I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
– George Eliot