Quotes by German Authors - Page 8

Power without [the people's] confidence is nothing.
Catherine the Great
Men will get no more out of life than they put into it.
William J. H. Boetcker
Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it.
Shere Hite
Here is where some entrepreneurs fail. They are filled with creative juices and total commitment to their business but too often they don't understand that they must also be managers administrators even gofers-at least for a while.
Lillian Vernon
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
Wernher von Braun
You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them and I'm of the belief that you should fight them.
Dr. Ruth Westheimer
Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you and be happy!
Anne Frank
If you are possessed by an idea you find it expressed everywhere you even smell it.
Thomas Mann
I keep my ideals because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
Politics is not an exact science.
Otto von Bismarck
The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger
All I know is I'm not a Marxist.
Karl Marx
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
90% of the politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation.
Henry Kissinger
There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.
Goethe
(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects whether moral or intellectual shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Modern poets mix too much water with their ink.
Goethe
One's task is not to turn the world upside down but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Every day look at a beautiful picture read a beautiful poem listen to some beautiful music and if possible say some reasonable thing.
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
One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.
Ludwig van Beethoven
The more a human being feels himself a self tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.
Eugene Herrigel
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can bel How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is I
Anne Frank
Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things man will not find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer
Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.
Rolf Hochhuth
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and in a sense tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent.
Erich Fromm
When one has not had a good father one must create one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To become a father is not hard to be a father is however.
Wilhelm Busch
A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
Hannah Arendt
Nerves provide me with energy.... It's when I don't have them when I feel at ease that I get worried.
Mike Nichols
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 who he assumes to have perfect vision.
Henry Kissinger
There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish though he be king or pope.
Thomas à Kempis
Renown is a source of toil and sorrow obscurity is a source of happiness.
Johann L. von Mosheim
It is much safer to obey than to rule.
Thomas à Kempis
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann
I do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency it will be okay.
Henry Kissinger
Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.
Johann von Goethe
Time is that in which all things pass away.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Time itself is an element.
Johann von Goethe
Time is a part of eternity and of the same piece with it.
Moses Mendelssohn
Each day is a little life every waking and rising a little birth every fresh morning a little youth every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur Schopenhauer
At any rate you can bear it for a quarter of an hour!
Theodore Haecker
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein
It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Sweets are good for the nerves.
Margarete Bieber
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness of life. The more certain the end the more tempting the minute.
Theodore Fontane
It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.
Johann von Goethe
Modern man thinks he loses something-time-when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains- except kill it.
Erich Fromm
Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life time unenriched by experience creative endeavor enjoyment and suffering.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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
The lower classes of men though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.
G. C. Lichtenberg