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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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