George Eliot Quotes

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

I don't like to complain.

I don't let people affect me.

My mom raised me to never have anything control me.

I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.

Most of the time, I'm not scared. I get on with life, not because I'm a fatalist, but because that's the most congenial way of dealing with things. Indeed, most of the time, I'm not conscious of dealing with anything.

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

I never let myself get desperate.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

No one can be patient who is not independent.

It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

I just think about how much worse something could be, and I'm like, 'Alright, cool, whatever.' I'm nonchalant.

I've always been of the mind that what's mine is mine, and nobody can take it away from me. So when it comes, great. When it goes, great.

My mom raised me to be a strong person.

I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.

In my personal life I wasn't someone who cried easily, someone who was extremely vulnerable, you know, in that way that's constantly seeking out affirmation from other people. I've always been much more the person who took care of everyone else.

Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.

I never fall apart, because I never fall together.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .

Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom.