George Eliot Quotes About Ambition

• It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

  George Eliot

  Beautiful, Witty, Giving Up

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1147, Wordsworth Editions

• I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.

  George Eliot

  Ambition, Different, Mastery

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.499, Penguin

• But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary. In such states of mind the most incredulous person has a private leaning towards miracle: impossible to conceive how our wish could be fulfilled, still - very wonderful things have happened!

  George Eliot

  Ambition, Long, Miracle

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2578, Delphi Classics

• ... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.

  George Eliot

  Ambition, Vision, Ease

  George Eliot (2006). “Middlemarch: Easyread Edition”, p.402, ReadHowYouWant.com

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