Inspiring Quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - Page 2

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"It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united"

"Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is"

"We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases"

"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking"

"The human mind will not be confined to any limits"

"Age merely shows what children we remain"

"Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be"

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

"There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior"

"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is"

"He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy"

"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace"

"If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick"

"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live"

"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men"

"What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together"

"Every step of life shows much caution is required"

"First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth"

"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world"

"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight"

"There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at"

"To create something you must be something"

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like"

"We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming"

"What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won"

"Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image"

"What is my life if I am no longer useful to others"

"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game"

"Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality"

"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself"

"In art the best is good enough"

"Personality is everything in art and poetry"

"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste"

"One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best"

"One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude"

"No one has ever learned fully to know themselves"

"Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture"

"Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers"

"Mysteries are not necessarily miracles"

"Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout"

"Mastery passes often for egotism"

"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time"

"Love does not dominate; it cultivates"

"It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him"

"It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed"

"It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them"

"It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself"

"In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance"

"I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me"

"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true"

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