George Eliot's Quote - There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be

Quote by George Eliot

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

Other quotes by George Eliot

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness. – George Eliot

Category:

Slavery

Author

George Eliot

Read Quote

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. – George Eliot

Category:

Jealousy

Author

George Eliot

Read Quote

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. – George Eliot

Category:

Wisdom

Author

George Eliot

Read Quote

Other Quotes from

best

Random Quotes

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business – writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played. – Jackson Browne

Category:

Learning

Once youre halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there. – Janis Ian

Category:

Home

The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished and put inside boxes. – Dave Barry

Category:

Housework

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. – John Ruskin

Category:

Art