Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Mistake, Thinking

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• Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Friendship, Peace, Enemy

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• If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Teacher, Soul, Your Soul

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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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  Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mirrors, Empathy, Behaviour

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• Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Kindness, Together, Golden

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• The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Hardest, Hardest Thing

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• There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  War, Stupid, Aggressive

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  There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Xenophobia, Business, Ignorance

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

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• The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, Way, Treats

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• To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Business, Integrity, Thinking

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  War, Political, Sound

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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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Being Happy, Peace

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• The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Knowledge, Doubt, Greater

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.24

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Success, Believe

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• Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thieves, Fool, Temper

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• Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Smile, Laughter

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Important, Contentment

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• Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Knowledge, Belief, Ends

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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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• Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Caring, Challenges

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• Everything is hard before it is easy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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