Go forward with joyful confidence.
George EliotRead
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Great achievements require taking risks and embracing uncertainty.
This quote by George Eliot suggests that significant accomplishments are often achieved by those who are willing to take action without needing absolute certainty. It emphasizes the importance of courage and initiative in pursuing great deeds, as hesitation and the desire for guaranteed outcomes can hinder progress and prevent success.
Themes
Great DeedsUncertaintyCourageRiskAction
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to encourage employees to take initiative in their projects.
More from George Eliot
All quotes βYou must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.
George EliotRead
She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel β that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth.
George EliotRead
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
George EliotRead
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
George EliotRead
Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.
George EliotRead
Similar quotes
Time is making fools of us again.
J. K. RowlingRead
The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
Anthony De MelloRead
The Lord will always prepare a way for you to escape from the trials you will be given if you understand two things. One is that you need to be on the Lord's errand. The second thing you need to understand is that the escape will almost never be out of the trial; it will usually be through it.
Henry B. EyringRead
I understand the law through the operation of which my own character is developed from my own acts and thoughts; therefore, I will guard with care all that goes into its development.
Napoleon HillRead
I think there's a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking place in cinema, they have had to deal with that by digging deeper into who these people are.
Mohsin HamidRead
If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.
Carl SaganRead