Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Motivation

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

• It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Success, Running

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.65

• Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Leadership, Hope, Motivation

• If you want to make life easy, make it hard.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Motivational, Positive

• The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Positive, Patience

• The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Lying, Adversity

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

• Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivation, Mistake, Imagination

• Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Mind, Tasks

• We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Success, Giving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.70

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