Quotes By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

To create something you must be something.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

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

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Precaution is better than cure.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

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

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

A person hears only what they understand.