Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

1.Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

2.Great talent finds happiness in execution.

3.Character develops itself in the stream of life.

4.A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

5.Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

6.Knowing is not enough; we must apply!

7.In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

8.The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

9.People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

10.If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of douts of my own.

11.Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

12.Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

13.A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

14.Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

15.What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

16.Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.

17.The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

18.Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

19.Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

20.To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

21.We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

22.To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

23.In the beginning was the deed.

24.None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

25.Talent is formed in stillness, character in the world.

26.He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

27.Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

28.What is the hardest of all? That which seems easiest for your eyes: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

29.One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

30.If I love you, what business is it of yours?

31.Nothing is more frightful than ignorance in action.

32.He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

33.By seeking and blundering we learn.

34.What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.