Time Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time flies, and what is past is done.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Method will teach you to win time.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time itself is an element.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every second is of infinite value.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The present moment is a powerful goddess.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We have time enough if we but use it aright

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It was as if my soul were thinking separately from the body: she looked upon the body as a foreign substance, as…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere." The human race is but a…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“O, may you look, full moon that shines, On my pain for this last time: So many midnights from my desk, I…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“So give me back that time again, When I was still ‘becoming’,    [185] When words gushed like a fountain In new, and endless…

— 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 you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A good man apologizes for the mistakes of the past, but a great man corrects them.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe