Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Opportunity

• The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Leadership, Courage, Inspiration

• Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Opportunity, Absence, Wells

• Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Art, Opportunity

• Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Opportunity, Life Is

• Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Animal, Opportunity, Men

• If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Heart, Procrastination

• Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Opportunity, Men, Moments

  BookCaps, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Faust in Plain and Simple English: First Part of the Tragedy: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide”, p.161, BookCaps Study Guides

• Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Short Life, Opportunity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.75

• Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Opportunity, Buttons, Firsts

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