Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Expectations

• The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Positive, Patience

• Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Expectations, Cheated

• The threshold is the place of expectation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Expectations, Threshold

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1855). “Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship: A novel from the German. Transl. by R. Dillon Boylan. Complete in 1 vol”, p.464

• Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Short Life, Opportunity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.75

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