Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Browse 22 quotes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
“He only earns his freedom and his life who takes them every day by storm.”
“To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.”
“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasures takes joy, even as though it were his own.”
“Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.”
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
“A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”
“By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.”
“Live each day as if your life had just begun.”
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.”
“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”
“Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.”
“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”
“Whatever you do or dream you can do - begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.”
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”
“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”
“Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.”
“Only begin and then the mind grows heated. Only begin and the task will be completed.”
“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.”
