Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Accomplishment

• Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Accomplishment, Desire, Ability

• Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sweet, Accomplishment, Lips

• Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Men, Healthy

• The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Accomplishment, Deeds, Helping

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Bayard Taylor (1949). “Faust: A Tragedy in Two Parts”

• You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Suicide, Accomplishment, Weakness

• Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Accomplishment, Purpose

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