Quotes By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

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

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

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

A useless life is an early death.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

The little man is still a man.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

To create something you must be something.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

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

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

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?

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.