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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
German
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Poet
August 28, 1749 - March 22, 1832
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Motivational
Enough
Must
Knowing
Apply
Willing
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God
Me
He
Would
Created
Had
Otherwise
Wanted
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man
He
Belief
Made
Believes
His
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Good
Death
Man
Time
Eternity
Good Man
Looking
Seen
Through
A Good Man
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowledge
Know
Doubt
Only
Little
Accurately
Increases
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You
Yourself
Magic
Make
Anything
Believing
Happen
Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Person
Mission
Above
Ordinary
Certain
Every
Fulfill
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
World
Thoughts
Thinking
Action
Acting
Difficult
Difficult Thing
Easy
Most
Most Difficult Thing
Put
Thing
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art
Personality
Poetry
Everything
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Today
Tomorrow
Never
Finished
Started
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature
Never
See
Everything
Anything
Before
Beside
Connection
Else
Isolated
Over
Over It
Something
Something Else
Which
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Grow
Nobody
Somebody
Everybody
Wants
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Peace
Home
King
Who
He
Finds
Happiest
His
Peasant
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character
People
Laugh
Nothing
Betray
More
Than
Which
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man
Clever
Clever Man
Minor
Blunders
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beauty
Alone
Walk
Soul
Sometimes
May
Sees
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowledge
Heart
My Own
Everyone
Acquire
Else
Everyone Else
Own
Possess
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
Time
People
Money
Care
Come
End
Just
Many
Nearly
Others
Same
Take
Till
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Government
Difficult
Easy
Rule
Govern
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature
Children
Birds
Must
Ask
Cherries
How
Strawberries
Taste
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children
Nothing
Up
Early
According
Geniuses
Grew
Should
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational
Day
Nothing
More
Worth
Than
Few people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People
Imagination
Reality
Few People
Few
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Will
Way
Some
Himself
Against
Author
Even
Every
His
Works
I call architecture frozen music.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Music
Architecture
Call
Frozen
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life
You
Believe
Better
Book
Friend
Honest
Orator
Teaches
Tell
I Can
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Never
Appreciate
Us
Noble
Gain
Torn
Which
Every step of life shows much caution is required.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life
Step
Caution
Every Step
Every
Much
Required
Shows
Precaution is better than cure.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Better
Than
Precaution
Cure
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Safe
Only
He
Coward
Threatens
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational
Love
Great
Wings
Deeds
Desire
Spirit
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life
Man
Happy
Beginning
Bring
End
Happy Man
He
His
How
Knows
Most
Relation
Who
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man
Achieve
Must
He
Demanded
Greater
Him
Himself
Regard
Than
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You
Man
Mind
Words
Wish
His
Know
Listen
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life
Childhood
Immortality
Our
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Me
People
I Am
Better
Am
Reform
Than
Think
Trying
I Think
Who
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Time
Will
Always
Enough
Apply
Well
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Time
Evening
Day
Will
Devote
Done
Each
Each Day
Every
Find
Object
Something
Then
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Imagination
Nothing
More
Taste
Fearful
Than
Without
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Adversity
Overcoming
Only
Fresh
Activity
Means
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You
Opportunity
Well
Talk
Absent
Whenever
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everything
Glory
Deed
Naught
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happiness
Talent
Will
Person
Born
Find
Greatest
Greatest Happiness
Meant
Use
Using
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Will
Bridge
Burn
Come
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life
Character
Stream
Itself
Develops
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dreams
Power
Men
Dream
Hearts
Move
Small
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Positive
More
Encouragement
Does
Correction
Much
We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People
Go
Know
Like
Come
Find
Get
Must
Out
Them
Us
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love
Truth
Genius
First
Demanded
Last
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People
Person
Noble
How
Attracts
Hold
Knows
Them
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