Quotes By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nothing is worth more than this day.

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.

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.

To create something you must be something.

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

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.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

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?

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.

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

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

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.