Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

• goals
• self improvement
• achievement
• accomplishment

This is the source.

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

• character
• talent

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.

• leadership

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

• happiness
• relationships
• home

This is the source.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

• confidence
• initiative

This is the source.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

• humor
• laughter

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

• confidence
• egotism

The best of all governments is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

• government

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.

• focus