Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It’s true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Love does not dominate; it cultivates."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"A man sees in the world what he sees in his heart."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Man reist nicht, um anzukommen, sondern um zu reisen."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Man reist nicht, um anzukommen, sondern um zu reisen"

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do"

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Nothing is worth more than this day."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Auch aus Steinen, die einem in den Weg gelegt werden, kann man Schönes bauen"

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Auch aus Steinen, die einem in den Weg gelegt werden, kann man Schönes bauen."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Instruction does much, but encouragement, everything."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Each 10 years of a man’s life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Magic is believing in yourself; if you can do that, you can make anything happen"

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"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

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Correction does much, but encouragement does more."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"One must be something to do something."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"What is not started will never get finished."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Every second is of infinite value."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"One always has time enough, if one will apply it well."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection — which we have ourselves created."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Not to keep from error, is the duty of the educator of men, but to guide the erring one, even to let him swill his error out of full cups—that is the wisdom of teachers."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"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

"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Precaution is better than cure."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"A 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 Goethe

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I call architecture frozen music."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Architecture is frozen music."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Night is the other half of life, and the better half."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe