Quotes by German Authors - Page 3

We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired.
Johann von Goethe
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
Albert Schweitzer
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
Henry Kissinger
A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man however should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
Albert Einstein
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann von Goethe
The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
William J. H. Boetcker
Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
J. C. F. von Schiller
He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
J. C. F. von Schiller
No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.
William J. H. Boetcker
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
Oswald Spengler
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer
Fear is the absence of faith.
Paul Tillich
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room each believing himself in mortal peril from the other whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
Henry Kissinger
Montesquieu had the style of a genius Buffon the genius of style.
Baron Grimm
Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.
Friedrich von Schiller
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What does not destroy me makes me strong.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
Bertolt Brecht
Sorrows are like thunderclouds - in the distance they look black over our heads scarcely gray.
Jean Paul Richter
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes ennui of the higher ones.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Great intellects are skeptical.
Friedrich Nietzsche
With most people doubt about one thing is simply blind belief in another.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.
E. E. Schumacher
God made man simple but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
Johann von Goethe
There is only one meaning of life the act of living itself.
Erich Fromm
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone best both for the body and the mind.
Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible ... but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Albert Schweitzer
I am my own heaven and hell!
J. C. F. von Schiller
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are by their very nature highly uncertain precarious ephemeral and subject to chance.
Arthur Schopenhauer
He who has no opinion of his own but depends upon the opinion and taste of others is a slave.
Friedrich Klopstock
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
God creates the animals man creates himself.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
Hermann Hesse
He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
Johann von Goethe
An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Grumbling is the death of love.
Marlene Dietrich
I shall be an autocrat that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me that's his.
Catherine the Great
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Thomas Mann
A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences.
Thomas à Kempis
There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.
Karen Horney
Glamour is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way mentally and physically and in appearance and that whatever the occasion or the situation you are equal to it.
Marlene Dietrich
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Erich Fromm
Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.
William J. H. Boetcker
Soften my hard self-opinionatedness which time has hardened so exceedingly!
Gertrude the Great
Pride ... is the direct appreciation of oneself.
Arthur Schopenhauer
As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.
Johann von Goethe
It isn't important to come out on top what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
Bertolt Brecht
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Johann von Goethe
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich
People remain what they are even when their faces fall to pieces.
Bertolt Brecht
What thou art that thou art.
Thomas à Kempis
I am what I am so take me as I am!
Johann von Goethe
If God had wanted me otherwise He would have created me otherwise.
Johann von Goethe
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Rosa Luxemburg
Of all afflictions the worst is self-contempt.
Berthold Auerbach
Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men whatever they say about you good or bad you are not because of it another man for as you are you are.
Thomas à Kempis