George Eliot Quotes About Waiting

• Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.

  George Eliot

  Rivers, Waiting, Feelings

  George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.152, London

• The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

  "Janet's Repentance". Story by George Eliot, Chapter 25. "Scenes of Clerical Life". Book by George Eliot, 1857.

• It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Thinking, Long

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.238, Wordsworth Editions

• The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.

  George Eliot

  Death, Heart, Waiting

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2743, ShandonPress

• We mustn't be in a hurry to fix and choose our own lot; we must wait to be guided.

  George Eliot

  Waiting, Providence

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.80

• Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.

  George Eliot

  Commitment, Waiting, Quality

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