Johann von Goethe Quotes

Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in whether he has the aptitude for it or not.
Johann von Goethe
What you can do or dream you can do begin it boldness has genius power and magic in it.
Johann von Goethe
Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
Johann von Goethe
Every second is of infinite value.
Johann von Goethe
We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired.
Johann von Goethe
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann von Goethe
God made man simple but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
Johann von Goethe
He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
Johann von Goethe
As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.
Johann von Goethe
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Johann von Goethe
If God had wanted me otherwise He would have created me otherwise.
Johann von Goethe
I am what I am so take me as I am!
Johann von Goethe
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.
Johann von Goethe
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann von Goethe
Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann von Goethe
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.
Johann von Goethe
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann von Goethe
Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.
Johann von Goethe
Time itself is an element.
Johann 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 von Goethe
It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.
Johann von Goethe
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.
Johann von Goethe
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Johann von Goethe
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.
Johann von Goethe
How many years you have to keep on doing until you know what to do and how to do!
Johann von Goethe
Whatever necessity lays upon thee endure whatever she commands do.
Johann von Goethe
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann von Goethe
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Johann von Goethe
Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann von Goethe
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.
Johann von Goethe
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann von Goethe
Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.
Johann von Goethe
Time itself is an element.
Johann 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 von Goethe
It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.
Johann von Goethe
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.
Johann von Goethe
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Johann von Goethe
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.
Johann von Goethe
How many years you have to keep on doing until you know what to do and how to do!
Johann von Goethe
Whatever necessity lays upon thee endure whatever she commands do.
Johann von Goethe
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann von Goethe
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.
Johann von Goethe
Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.
Johann von Goethe
To measure up to all that is demanded of him a man must overestimate his capacities.
Johann von Goethe
Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
Johann von Goethe
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.
Johann von Goethe
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
Johann von Goethe
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.
Johann von Goethe
A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
Johann von Goethe
He is happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.
Johann 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 von Goethe
Even the lowliest provided he is whole can be happy and in his own . way perfect.
Johann von Goethe
Life's objective is life itself.
Johann von Goethe
Let us live while we are alive!
Johann von Goethe
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
Johann von Goethe
A useless life is an early death.
Johann von Goethe
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.
Johann von Goethe
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
Johann von Goethe
If you miss the first buttonhole you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.
Johann von Goethe
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.
Johann von Goethe