Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Inspirational
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Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
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As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
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Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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.
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A useless life is an early death.
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Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
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Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education
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Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.
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If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.
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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
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Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
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There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
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One mind is enough for a thousand hands.
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Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
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In the colored reflection we have Life.
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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
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Everything is hard before it is easy.
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Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.
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