Inspirational Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sing it not in mournful numbers.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

True happiness springs from moderation.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Collectors are happy people.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The threshold is the place of expectation.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are our own aptest deceiver.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The history of mankind is his character.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time flies, and what is past is done.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So schaff' ich am sausenden Webstuhl der Zeit. Thus at Time's humming loom I ply.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Whenever I hear people talking about "liberal ideas," I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds.…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Each one's no longer conscious Of the high wall, or the rest: Since the one enduring fortress, Is the soldier's iron breast.…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do thine own task, and be therewith content.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One mind is enough for a thousand hands.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature is the living, visible garment of God.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Words express neither objects nor ourselves.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To a valet no man is a hero.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A joy shared is a joy doubled.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man's errors are what make him amiable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our earthly ball a peopled garden.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe