Johann Von Goethe Quotes

Knowing Is Not Enough; We Must Apply. Wishing Is Not Enough; We Must Do.

A useless life is an early death.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

Every second is of infinite value.

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

Faith is hidden household capital.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

Time itself is an element.

Life's objective is life itself.

Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.

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.

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.

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.

It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in whether he has the aptitude for it or not.

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.

As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.

If God had wanted me otherwise He would have created me otherwise.

I am what I am so take me as I am!

We must always change renew rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.

God made man simple but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired.

Life belongs to the living and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

What you can do or dream you can do begin it boldness has genius power and magic in it.

Man errs as long as he struggles.

Man must strive and in striving he must err.

If you miss the first buttonhole you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.

Nature reacts not only to physical disease but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage.

Let us live while we are alive!

Even the lowliest provided he is whole can be happy and in his own . way perfect.

He is happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.

How many years you have to keep on doing until you know what to do and how to do!

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.

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

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.

Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.

To measure up to all that is demanded of him a man must overestimate his capacities.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Whatever necessity lays upon thee endure whatever she commands do.