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Johann von Goethe



  • Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.



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



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



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



  • Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.



  • 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.



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



  • Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.



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



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



  • Faith is hidden household capital.



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



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



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



  • Let us live, while we are alive.



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



  • 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.



  • Age merely shows what children we remain.



  • Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.



  • A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.



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



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



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



  • Nothing is worth more than this day.



  • Who is the happiness of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own.



  • If god had wanted me otherwise, He world have created me otherwise.



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



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



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



  • Life's objective is life itself.



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



  • A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.



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



  • A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.



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



  • A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.



  • A useless life is an early death.



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



  • A clever man commits no minor blunders.



  • It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.



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



  • Man must strive, and in striving, he must err.



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



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



  • All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.



  • 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.



  • A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.



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



  • To measure up to all that is demanded of him, must overestimate his capacities.



  • Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.



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



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