Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes And Sayings

What Is Not Started Today Is Never Finished Tomorrow.

To The Person With A Firm Purpose All Men And Things Are Servants.

All Theory, Dear Friend, Is Gray, But The Golden Tree Of Life Springs Ever Green.

The Best Government Is That Which Teaches Us To Govern Ourselves.

There Is A Courtesy Of The Heart; It Is Allied To Love. From Its Springs The Purest Courtesy In The Outward Behavior.

For Just When Ideas Fail, A Word Comes In To Save The Situation.

Divide And Rule, The Politician Cries; Unite And Lead, Is Watchword Of The Wise.

In The Realm Of Ideas Everything Depends On Enthusiasm... In The Real World All Rests On Perseverance.

I Love Those Who Yearn For The Impossible.

There Is Nothing So Terrible As Activity Without Insight.

If Your Treat An Individual... As If He Were What He Ought To Be And Could Be, He Will Become What He Ought To Be And Could Be.

Go To Foreign Countries And You Will Get To Know The Good Things One Possesses At Home.

Everybody Wants To Be Somebody; Nobody Wants To Grow.

If God Had Wanted Me Otherwise, He Would Have Created Me Otherwise.

A Really Great Talent Finds Its Happiness In Execution.

All The Knowledge I Possess Everyone Else Can Acquire, But My Heart Is All My Own.

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.

Precaution Is Better Than Cure.

The Coward Only Threatens When He Is Safe.

If Children Grew Up According To Early Indications, We Should Have Nothing But Geniuses.

Love And Desire Are The Spirit's Wings To Great Deeds.

Fresh Activity Is The Only Means Of Overcoming Adversity.

The Most Happy Man Is He Who Knows How To Bring Into Relation The End And Beginning Of His Life.

On All The Peaks Lies Peace.

Live Dangerously And You Live Right.

Thinking Is Easy, Acting Is Difficult, And To Put One's Thoughts Into Action Is The Most Difficult Thing In The World.

One Can Be Instructed In Society, One Is Inspired Only In Solitude.

Life Belongs To The Living, And He Who Lives Must Be Prepared For Changes.

As Soon As You Trust Yourself, You Will Know How To Live.

It Is Better To Be Deceived By One's Friends Than To Deceive Them.

Nothing Shows A Man's Character More Than What He Laughs At.

Being Brilliant Is No Great Feat If You Respect Nothing.

None Are More Hopelessly Enslaved Than Those Who Falsely Believe They Are Free.

The Mediator Of The Inexpressible Is The Work Of Art.

We Can't Form Our Children On Our Own Concepts; We Must Take Them And Love Them As God Gives Them To Us.

Destiny Grants Us Our Wishes, But In Its Own Way, In Order To Give Us Something Beyond Our Wishes.

The Artist Alone Sees Spirits. But After He Has Told Of Their Appearing To Him, Everybody Sees Them.

If You Modestly Enjoy Your Fame You Are Not Unworthy To Rank With The Holy.

It Is Not Doing The Thing We Like To Do, But Liking The Thing We Have To Do, That Makes Life Blessed.

He Only Earns His Freedom And His Life Who Takes Them Every Day By Storm.

If You Start To Think Of Your Physical And Moral Condition, You Usually Find That You Are Sick.

Love Does Not Dominate; It Cultivates.

The People Who Are Absent Are The Ideal; Those Who Are Present Seem To Be Quite Commonplace.

Character Is Formed In The Stormy Billows Of The World.

He Who Enjoys Doing And Enjoys What He Has Done Is Happy.

Personality Is Everything In Art And Poetry.

Do Not Give In Too Much To Feelings. A Overly Sensitive Heart Is An Unhappy Possession On This Shaky Earth.

Hatred Is Active, And Envy Passive Dislike; There Is But One Step From Envy To Hate.

There Are Only Two Lasting Bequests We Can Hope To Give Our Children. One Of These Is Roots, The Other, Wings.

Plunge Boldly Into The Thick Of Life, And Seize It Where You Will, It Is Always Interesting.