Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
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Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
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The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.
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To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting.
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If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.
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All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.
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No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.
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Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.
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A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.
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The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.
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Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.
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God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
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People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.
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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
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All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.
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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
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Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.
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A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
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But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
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What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the trees. Now the eye at once gleams brightly, See! the infant band with mirth Moves and dances nimbly, lightly, As the morning gave it birth, Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.
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The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!