Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Failure

• I was a fan of T-Pain's music growing up. I bought 'Epiphany' and 'Rappa Ternt Sanga.'

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Why
  • America
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• If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Living in an ethical way can attune us to the pain and needs of others, but when our hearts are open and awake, we care instinctively.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Pain
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• Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Success
  • Road
  • Failure

• Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The greatest evil is physical pain.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Pain
  • Evil
  • Medical

• What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy, because back then the present and the future coincided - they were one and the same thing.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • People
  • Time
  • Happy

• I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Up
  • Believe
  • School

• There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Game
  • Pain

• You can't please everyone, but I've always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You'll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project.

  

  Mark Ryan Adam and the Ants
  • Challenge
  • Failure

• Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary.

  

  David Bergen
  • Failure

• I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.

  

  Dick York
  • Work
  • Pain
  • Sleep

• In addition to being an economic security issue, the failure to pay women a salary that's equal to men for equal work is also a women's health issue. The fact is that the salary women are paid directly impacts the type of health care services they are able to access for both themselves and their families.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

  

  Don Shula
  • Success
  • Forever
  • Failure

• Many climate change deniers would have you believe that addressing climate change is all pain and no gain. This is simply not true. We can tackle this challenge while improving our personal health and the health of our economy. These are not competing interests; they go hand in hand.

  

  Paul Tonko
  • Believe
  • True
  • Health

• Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating, and it's what my business, TV and film, is largely based on. But the realities are tragic, and in crime drama you rarely see the pain of bereavement or any consequences. It's reduced to a chess game.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Business
  • Game
  • Interesting

• Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Power
  • Failure

• I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.

  

  Ann Voskamp
  • Fall
  • Failure
  • Thanks

• If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

  

  Neil Simon
  • Life
  • Pain

• Life is not about gutting out every situation. It's about identifying opportunity or the lack thereof. If your pride is all that is standing in the way of quitting, quit. The right people won't care and the wrong people don't matter. If you know you're on the right path, persevere though the pain. It will be worth it.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Pain

• I think we're always going to be based in New York. So I would say 50 percent New York and the other 50 percent around the world.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • World

• I have no agenda - just to be loved.

  

  Clarence Clemons

• Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Pain
  • Failure
  • Roar Of Time