Quotes By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Love can do much, but duty more.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

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

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

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

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Precaution is better than cure.

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

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

A person hears only what they understand.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

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.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.