Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
Quotations by George Eliot

Other quotes and quotations :

• There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life. 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
• The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. George Eliot
• There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. George Eliot
• Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. Edward Young
• What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? George Eliot
• What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. George Eliot
• God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it. Austin O’Malley
• Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. Joseph Joubert
• Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. George Eliot