Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Correction does much, but encouragement does more."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Positive More Encouragement Much
"Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You Yourself Magic Anything
"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happiness Talent Will Person Born
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Freedom Believe Free Who
"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beauty Alone Walk Soul
"Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mirror Behavior Everyone Image Which
"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hope Parenting Children Wings
"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You Yourself Trust Will
"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
World Will Door Everyone Clean
"Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Person Mission Above Ordinary
"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nation Literature Decline
"Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beauty Secret Us Hidden
"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Grow Nobody Somebody Everybody
"Personality is everything in art and poetry."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art Personality Poetry Everything
"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Peace Home King Who
"The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wisdom You People Way
"Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature Progress Pause Curse Inaction
"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People Go Know Like
"Nothing is worth more than this day."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational Day Nothing More
"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dreams Power Men Dream Small
"Few people have the imagination for reality."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People Imagination Reality Few
"In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Perseverance World Real Ideas
"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."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational Good Day Song
"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life Tree Green Friend Gray
"If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God Me He Would
"Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man Belief He Made
"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Heart Knowledge Everyone Own My Own
"The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Eyes See Your Hardest
"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Work Art Mediator Inexpressible
"The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man Perfection Enough Insight
"Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational Love Great Wings Deeds
"I call architecture frozen music."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Music Architecture Call Frozen
"In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature Never Everything See
"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."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Time People Money Care
"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life Change Who Must Living
"Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Adversity Overcoming Fresh Only
"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thinking Brainy Looking More
"There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character People Nothing Laugh
"Precaution is better than cure."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Better Than Cure Precaution
"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life Result Important
"Love does not dominate; it cultivates."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love Dominate Does
"Wisdom is found only in truth."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wisdom Truth Only Found
"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You Great Respect Nothing Brilliant
"A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man Mirror Portrait Manners
"The coward only threatens when he is safe."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Safe Only Coward He
"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Today Tomorrow Never Finished
"Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wise Politician Lead Unite
"Life is the childhood of our immortality."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life Childhood Immortality Our
"There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
World View Nothing Point Of View

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