Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheStill this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheContinue 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.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOnly learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAll 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.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMen show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEverybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCharacter develops itself in the stream of life.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhat does not kill me makes me stronger.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFirst and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhen 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.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf 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.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI 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.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA 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 Wolfgang von GoetheBoldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOne must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhat by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCharacter is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTo hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe right man is the one who seizes the moment.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe