Giving Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Giving is the business of the rich.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Come my little one, and give me your hand.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only law can give us freedom.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mastery is proven only in limitation, and law alone can give us freedom.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them;…

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe