George Eliot Inspirational Quotations

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

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.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.