Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Integrity, Weather, Climate

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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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• 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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• There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  War, Stupid, Aggressive

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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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• The solution of every problem is another problem

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Math, Logic, Problem

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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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• 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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Moving, Commitment, Misunderstood

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• People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Positive, Attitude

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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).

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Wings, Two

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• All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Wisdom, Time

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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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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• Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Attributed to Goethe by Johannes Falk in "Goethe aus näherm persönlichen Umgange dargestellt", 1832.

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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 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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Truth, School

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• What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Motivational, Softball

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• The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Slave

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• Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Self Esteem, Believe, Yoga

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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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• Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Caring, Challenges

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• We see only what we know.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Belief, Knows

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gage (1980). “Goethe on Art”, p.7, Univ of California Press

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