Quotes By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

The little man is still a man.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

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

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

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.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

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