Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.
This is the source.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
The best of all governments is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
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 amount to.
The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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