Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
-
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
-
Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
-
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
-
Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
-
We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
-
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
-
I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
-
I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.
-
You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
-
To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
-
I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.
-
Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
-
It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
-
My family were pretty big hippies.
-
My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author.
-
The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
-
The core of the Jesus message is what has made him relevant for twenty centuries.
-
I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.
-
Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.
-
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
-
I have always tried to do everything that's been in my power to defend and sustain our institutions. I have demonstrated in my public life that I loyally serve my country and that I love freedom. It has been my sole purpose to propose what I think best for your highest interests, which are to strengthen peace in the future and strengthen our institutions.
-
Plunge boldly into the thick of life!
