55 Quotes & Sayings By Johann Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a German writer, scientist, polymath, artist, humanist and the most prolific winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Goethe was one of the most influential figures in German literature. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, science and the arts. He is best known for his poem, Hermann und Dorothea (also known as The Sorrows of Young Werther), which is considered one of the finest works in German literature Read more

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Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers. Johann Von Goethe
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost. Johann Von Goethe
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Life belongs to the living and he who lives must be prepared for changes. Johann Von Goethe
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We must always change renew rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden. Johann Von Goethe
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Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Johann Von Goethe
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The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. Johann Von Goethe
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What you can do or dream you can do begin it boldness has genius power and magic in it. Johann Von Goethe
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Nature reacts not only to physical disease but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage. Johann Von Goethe
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot. Johann Von Goethe
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Energy will do anything that can be done in this world. Johann Von Goethe
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Man errs as long as he struggles. Johann Von Goethe
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Man must strive and in striving he must err. Johann Von Goethe
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Faith is hidden household capital. Johann Von Goethe
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Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native your best teacher is there.... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken you study mineralogy best among miners and so with everything else. Johann Von Goethe
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If you miss the first buttonhole you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat. Johann Von Goethe
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Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do. Johann Von Goethe
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To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all. Johann Von Goethe
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A useless life is an early death. Johann Von Goethe
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It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself. Johann Von Goethe
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Let us live while we are alive! Johann Von Goethe
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Life's objective is life itself. Johann Von Goethe
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Even the lowliest provided he is whole can be happy and in his own . way perfect. Johann Von Goethe
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Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. Johann Von Goethe
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He is happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home. Johann Von Goethe
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A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness. Johann Von Goethe
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others And in their pleasure takes joy even as though t'were his own. Johann Von Goethe
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Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. Johann Von Goethe
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others and in their pleasure takes joy even as though it were his own. Johann Von Goethe
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Hope is the second soul of the unhappy. Johann Von Goethe
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To measure up to all that is demanded of him a man must overestimate his capacities. Johann Von Goethe
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Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it. Johann Von Goethe
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The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is indeed a species of sagacity-a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy. Johann Von Goethe
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In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance. Johann Von Goethe
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Whatever necessity lays upon thee endure whatever she commands do. Johann Von Goethe
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How many years you have to keep on doing until you know what to do and how to do! Johann Von Goethe
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Austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the least of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time. Johann Von Goethe
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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
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It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle. Johann Von Goethe
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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
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Time itself is an element. Johann Von Goethe
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Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir. Johann Von Goethe
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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
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In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance. Johann Von Goethe
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Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. Johann Von Goethe
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Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in whether he has the aptitude for it or not. Johann Von Goethe
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Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension. Johann Von Goethe
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As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live. Johann Von Goethe
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If God had wanted me otherwise He would have created me otherwise. Johann Von Goethe
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I am what I am so take me as I am! Johann Von Goethe
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He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without. Johann Von Goethe
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God made man simple but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say. Johann Von Goethe
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We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired. Johann Von Goethe
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Every second is of infinite value. Johann Von Goethe
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Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value. Johann Von Goethe