Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Life is the childhood of our immortality.
JOHANN VON GOETHE We are shaped and fashioned by what whom we love.
JOHANN VON GOETHE If I love you, what business is it of yours?
JOHANN VON GOETHE Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unp...
JOHANN VON GOETHE That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Before you can do something you must first be something.
JOHANN VON GOETHE How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do th...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnes...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE A useless life is an early death.
JOHANN VON GOETHE If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
JOHANN VON GOETHE He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
JOHANN VON GOETHE A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of sol...
JOHANN VON GOETHE If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that u...
JOHANN VON GOETHE What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerful...
JOHANN VON GOETHE We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reac...
JOHANN VON GOETHE If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the m...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
JOHANN VON GOETHE A clever man commits no minor blunders.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his fail...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
JOHANN VON GOETHE No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a pr...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The unnatural, that too is natural.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always righ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.
JOHANN VON GOETHE I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the w...
JOHANN VON GOETHE To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they of...
JOHANN VON GOETHE We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirk...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to d...
JOHANN VON GOETHE There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that b...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
JOHANN VON GOETHE There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Stupidity is without anxiety.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image
JOHANN VON GOETHE There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine -- and even, alas! Theology -- from end to e...
JOHANN VON GOETHE In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
JOHANN VON GOETHE No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificin...
JOHANN VON GOETHE We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.
JOHANN VON GOETHE It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
JOHANN VON GOETHE People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether the...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of whic...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us for...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy canno...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behin...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward ten...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees ot...
JOHANN VON GOETHE No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
JOHANN VON GOETHE No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
JOHANN VON GOETHE There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
JOHANN VON GOETHE To create something you must be something.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the fo...
JOHANN VON GOETHE We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Character develops itself in the stream of life.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
JOHANN VON GOETHE What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fo...
JOHANN VON GOETHE One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled togethe...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Personality is everything in art and poetry.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
JOHANN VON GOETHE If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be dif...
JOHANN VON GOETHE They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and l...
JOHANN VON GOETHE I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
JOHANN VON GOETHE We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
JOHANN VON GOETHE No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
JOHANN VON GOETHE While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
JOHANN VON GOETHE I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision f...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
JOHANN VON GOETHE We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
JOHANN VON GOETHE There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
JOHANN VON GOETHE None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
JOHANN VON GOETHE What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper...
JOHANN VON GOETHE If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
JOHANN VON GOETHE It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recogni...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retro...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
JOHANN VON GOETHE One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfac...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
JOHANN VON GOETHE In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
JOHANN VON GOETHE Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The history of mankind is his character.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
JOHANN VON GOETHE I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.
JOHANN VON GOETHE A distracted existence leads us to no goal.
JOHANN VON GOETHE What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Their is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
JOHANN VON GOETHE One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.
JOHANN VON GOETHE It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn wh...
JOHANN VON GOETHE It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resourc...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Only law can give us freedom.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Yes! To this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which i...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.
JOHANN VON GOETHE If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this a...
JOHANN VON GOETHE People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on...
JOHANN VON GOETHE It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
JOHANN VON GOETHE What is not fully understood is not possessed.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Every offense is avenged on earth.
JOHANN VON GOETHE A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent....
JOHANN VON GOETHE The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
JOHANN VON GOETHE If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and pers...
JOHANN VON GOETHE A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
JOHANN VON GOETHE We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Superstition is the poetry of life.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The people rate strength before everything.
JOHANN VON GOETHE A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
JOHANN VON GOETHE People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselve...
JOHANN VON GOETHE By seeking and blundering we learn.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are...
JOHANN VON GOETHE People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they en...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to w...
JOHANN VON GOETHE I do not now begin,--I still adore
Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast;
Then once again ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
JOHANN VON GOETHE We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.
JOHANN VON GOETHE He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
JOHANN VON GOETHE