George Eliot Quotes About Failure

• Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

  George Eliot

  Happiness, Inspiring, Perseverance

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.152, Penguin

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

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

• I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

  George Eliot

  Perseverance, Fear, Failure

  George Eliot (1997). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.365, Wordsworth Editions

• The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Failure, Hug

• In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.

  George Eliot

  Failure, Half, Losing

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.203, Penguin

• No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes.

  George Eliot

  Failure, Different, Matter

• There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

  George Eliot

  Failure, Air, People

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.322, George Eliot

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