Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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 way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Few people have the imagination for reality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Nothing is worth more than this day.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Wisdom is found only in truth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
I call architecture frozen music.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
A person hears only what they understand.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
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 WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Who is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born on 28 August 1749 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, who died on 22 March 1832 in Weimar, Saxe-Weimar German poet, playwright, novelist, statesman, theatre director, scientist, critic, and amateur artist, regarded as the greatest modern-day German literary figure.