Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Goals

• As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Trust

• Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Persistence

• A distracted existence leads us to no goal

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Goal, Setting Goals, Existence

• Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Change, Clever

• It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Success, Running

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.65

• The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Determination, Things In Life

• Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Israel, People, Goal

• I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Respect, Men, Goal

• The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Book, Years, People

• A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Patience, Encouragement, Wrinkles

• When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Men, Essence

• The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

• There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

• The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Goal, Achieve

• To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Knowing Who You Are, Goal

• The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Goal, World

• Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mean, Goal, Mind

• Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Nature, Mean

• Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hypocrite, Goal, Purpose

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