George Eliot Quotes About Sports

• There are many victories worse than a defeat.

  George Eliot

  Sports, Winning, Fearless

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.261

• Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

  George Eliot

  Success, Sports, New Year

• Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

  George Eliot

  Sports, Ignorance, Knowledge

  George Eliot (1876). “Daniel Deronda”, p.38

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