Famous Quotes / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
443 Quotations by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 81. Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
- 82. Faith is hidden household capital.
- 83. For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
- 84. For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
- 85. For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power; because, as long as the world la ...
- 86. Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which i ...
- 87. Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
- 88. Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.
- 89. Giving is the business of the rich.
- 90. Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there.... You acqui ...
- 91. God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
- 92. Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
- 93. Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops ...
- 94. Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
- 95. Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
- 96. Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the ...
- 97. He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
- 98. He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
- 99. He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
- 100. He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.