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Become Quotes by 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.
- In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and…
- By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
- Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.
- Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in…
- Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
- People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of…
- People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise…
- Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still…
- A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands…
- The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
- If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be…
- To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every…
- Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
- If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable…
- Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated…
- It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not…
- Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and…
- Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help him become what he is capable of being
- If you accept people for what they are, they will become worse. Treat them like they should be, and they will become better.
More Become Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange