Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Growth

• Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Growth, Progress, Lines

• He who moves not forward, goes backward.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Courage, Moving, Growth

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3084, Delphi Classics

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Change, Clever

• With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Knowledge, Ideas, Growth

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1906). “The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe”

• 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

• The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Learning, Thoughtful, Growth

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

• Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is covered with food of his own rearing, and who not only enjoys his meal, but remembers with delight the happy days and sunny mornings when he planted it, the soft evenings when he watered it, and the pleasure he experienced in watching its daily growth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Morning, Heart, Simple

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.13, 谷月社

• A mind, once formed, is never suited after,
  One yet in growth will ever grateful be.
  [Ger., Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen,
  Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Grateful, Growth, Mind

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