Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

• 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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Moving, Believe

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• Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Stupidity, Looks, Conspiracy

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Dream, Attitude

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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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• 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.

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  Kindness, Our World, Together

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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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  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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• A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

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  Men, Slave, Command

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1964). “Goethe : [selected Verse]”

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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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• 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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• Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

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  Inspirational, Caring, Challenges

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• Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

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

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  Life, Important, Contentment

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• A person hears only what they understand.

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  Motivational, Positive, Positivity

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• The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

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  Moving, Commitment, Misunderstood

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• Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.55

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• Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Memories, Should Have, Religion

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