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Doing Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
- Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every…
- Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.
- The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.
- Doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay...
- And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing, doing and thinking--and these are the sum of all wisdom. . . . Both…
- All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one up to now…
- There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot…
- How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you…
- How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!
- No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
- It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
- He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
- The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come…
- Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
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