Johann Wolfgang von Goethe > Quotes

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

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him 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

“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.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If I love you, what business is it of yours?”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Trust yourself, and you will know how to live.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“By seeking and blundering we learn.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

“Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A person hears only what they understand.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I love those who yearn for the impossible.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“knowing is not enough,we must apply
willing is not enough,we must do..”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Nothing is worth more than this day.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.”
― 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

“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love ”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you would create something,
you must be something.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”
― 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

“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they tke root in our personal experience.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you don't feel it, you'll never get it.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe