Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Fathers

• What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Father, Inheritance

  "Faust". Act I, scene i, 1808.

• We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Father, Son, Age

• Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Father, Conviction, Convinced

• That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Father, Thee, Ifs

• Win for yourself that which your fathers have won.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Father, Winning

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