Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes about Inspirational - Page 2

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

Inspirational, Knowing Who You Are, Goal

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Inspirational, Life, Change

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1989). “Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants”, p.111, Princeton University Press

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspirational, Contradiction, Agree

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.221, Ravenio Books

Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspirational, Life, Adventure

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspirational, Laughter, Character

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.142, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspirational, Art, Philosophy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.53, Ravenio Books

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspirational, Strength, Happiness

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspirational, Advice, Criticism

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspirational, Faith, Retreat

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspirational, Children, Being Alone

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

"My Country", Volume 2, No. 3, published by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23, September 1968.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspirational, Peace, Men

Before you can do something, you must first be something.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspirational, Spiritual, Firsts

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspirational, Inspiring, Witty

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 and could be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspirational, Motivational, Literature

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Inspirational, Life

"Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, April 6, 1779.

Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspirational, Venture, Fixed

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1882). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels: From the German...”

It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspirational, Wise, Past

"Faust: A Dramatic Poem".