FAMOUS 201 QUOTES BY JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

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

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

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

God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.

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

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

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

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.