Johann von Goethe Quotes

Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

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

A useless life is an early death.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

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

It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.

Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in whether he has the aptitude for it or not.

A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

Austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the least of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

Even the lowliest provided he is whole can be happy and in his own . way perfect.

Man errs as long as he struggles.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

If you miss the first buttonhole you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken you study mineralogy best among miners and so with everything else.

Faith is hidden household capital.

Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

God made man simple but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension.

We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired.

Life belongs to the living and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

Life's objective is life itself.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

Whatever necessity lays upon thee endure whatever she commands do.

A man should hear a little music read a little poetry and see a fine picture every day of his life in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

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

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others and in their pleasure takes joy even as though it were his own.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others And in their pleasure takes joy even as though t'were his own.

Every second is of infinite value.

Time itself is an element.

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

To measure up to all that is demanded of him a man must overestimate his capacities.

If God had wanted me otherwise He would have created me otherwise.

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

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

What you can do or dream you can do begin it boldness has genius power and magic in it.

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is indeed a species of sagacity-a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

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

Let us live while we are alive!

I am what I am so take me as I am!

How many years you have to keep on doing until you know what to do and how to do!

We must always change renew rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.

Man must strive and in striving he must err.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men but austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

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.

Nature reacts not only to physical disease but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage.