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Before you can do something you must first be something.


Johann Wolfgang Goethe

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PAUL ALAN FAHEY You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it
ALEX MORRISON You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.
ALEX MORRISON If you want something you've never had
You must be willing to do something you've never done.
THOMAS JEFFERSON You must know something about a person before you hate him.
VIKRANT PARSAI If you would create something, you must be something
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE You must see first before you can believe.
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL No one can stand up for you; that's something you must do for yourself.
JIM GENOVESE To create something you must be something.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Music's something you feel. You have to feel it first before you hear it.
ELLIOTT YAMIN Before you can score you must first have a goal.
PROVERB If you don't enjoy doing something, choose not to do it or choose to enjoy doing it.
LORRIN L. LEE You can be all that you want to be.
Keep dreaming and reach out to your dreams.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Want! You must want something. What do you want?
TOBIAS WOLFF If you want something to change your life, you must first let it!
N. S. COLE You can have anything you want in life, you must be willing to conquer the challenge.
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MEZZ DARKTERROR You can't do everything but you can do something!
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CEDRIC NYE The only way you can do something is that you do it.
MORAKENG SEKGOKA There is something you can do that nobody else can do
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion. [Ger., Die ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Where there are no women there are no good manners
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The universal subjugator, the commonplace. [Ger., Was uns alle bandigt, das Gemeine.]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the mome...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Everyone hears only what he understands.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult t...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. [G...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in t...
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 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 Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The society of women is the element of good manners.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Loving is a feeling that brings both joy and pain to my heart. Joy from being with you, being filled...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unp...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
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