Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
206 quotations
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
More light!
Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.
Only law can give us freedom.
In comradeship is danger countered best.
Giving is the business of the rich.
The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
A distracted existence leads us to no goal.
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
Their is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
Those are dead even for this life who hope for no other.
The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
The history of mankind is his character.