George Eliot Quotes

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

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

Success, for me, is staying true to who you are and not deviating off a path.

I know I must be true to myself.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.

The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

In just living my life, there's a responsibility to be true to myself, to be a responsible human.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

In everything I do, whether in business, philanthropy or my personal life, I am guided by my inner truth, my values.

Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.

If I wasn't true to myself, I couldn't live with myself.

I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.

I want to try to live my own values as consciously and purposefully as I can.

Do what in your heart you know is right. It is easy to get caught up in your ambitions, but no job is worth not being true to yourself.

Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who's looking back at you. And you can only do that if you're being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

It's really important to be honest to yourself.

The real existential challenge is to live up to your fullest potential, along with living up to your intense sense of responsibility and to be honest to yourself about what you want.

Being sincere and true to yourself is a scary thing but, ultimately, a rewarding one.