Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is worth more than this day.

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Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.

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Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.

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Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.

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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

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Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

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What does not kill me makes me stronger.

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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

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Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

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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.

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There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

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I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

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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.

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Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

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One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

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The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

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