FAMOUS 201 QUOTES BY JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

True happiness springs from moderation.

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life.

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.