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Whatever Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has…
- The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has…
- Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.
- Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
- 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…
- Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.
- I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.
- 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…
- Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so…
- The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the…
- Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
- Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
- If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances.…
- Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load…
- The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in…
- Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is…
- My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I…
- Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
- Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.
- Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.
More Whatever Quotes
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- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is. — Bea Arthur
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your… — Rowan Atkinson
- I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for… — Dave Attell
- Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing… — Chinua Achebe
- There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. — Marcus Aurelius