Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

• To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Kindness, Our World, Together

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• The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

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  Wisdom, Moving, Believe

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• A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

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  Wise, Dream, Attitude

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• Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much

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  Stupidity, Looks, Conspiracy

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• Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Commitment

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• You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

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  Loyalty, Respect, Honesty

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  Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

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  Inspirational, Song, Intelligence

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• At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

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  Commitment, Moments, Universe

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• None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.

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  Lying, Believe, Eye

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• If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

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  Happiness, Uplifting, Smart

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

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  Crazy, Personality, Insanity

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• Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.

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  Time, Yesterday, Mindfulness

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• The solution of every problem is another problem

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  Math, Logic, Problem

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• Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.

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  Powerful, Knowing, Majority

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• Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.

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  Inspirational, Mistake, Thinking

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• Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

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  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

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  War, Political, Sound

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• A person hears only what they understand.

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  Motivational, Positive, Positivity

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• There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

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  Children, Wings, Two

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• The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side.

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  Education, Truth, School

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

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  Inspirational, Success, Believe

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• Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.

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  Friendship, Peace, Enemy

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  There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

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  Xenophobia, Business, Ignorance

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, W. B. Rönnfeldt (1898*). “Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims”

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• I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather....In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.

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  Integrity, Weather, Climate

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