Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer who was born on August 28th 1749 and died on March 22nd 1832.

Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, humanism, and science.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To create something you must be something. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The human mind will not be confined to any limits. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“In the works of man as in those of nature, it is the intention which is chiefly worth studying.”~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Nothing is worth more than this day. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love does not dominate; it cultivates. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Few people have the imagination for reality. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you treat an individual as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A person hears only what they understand. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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