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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes


Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

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

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

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

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.