“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.”
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
“And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.”
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
“Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.”
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
“Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.”
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
“I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.”
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.”
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
“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 (1819-1880)
“We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.”
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
“The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers."
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
“Blameless people are always the most exasperating.”
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
“Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.”
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.”
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
“I protest against any absolute conclusion.”
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
"It is never too late, no matter how old you get because anytime or any point in your life you can always have a chance to make a difference. You can always make a change for the better no matter what background you derived from. You can always do your best and be all that you can be because you will always be uniquely you. It is why it is always wise to listen to your eternal heart, your eternal instincts, and what it had always strove for and/or to do because really anybody can make a difference not only in their own lives but in the lives of others. It is never too late to shine; never."
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
"No man can be wise on an empty stomach."
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
"People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy."
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
"The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice."
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us."
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
"One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy."
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
"Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course."
— George Eliot (1819-1880)
"All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation."
— George Eliot (1819-1880)