Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Hope

• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "My Country", Volume 2, No. 3, published by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23, September 1968.

• Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hope, Encouragement, Appreciation

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.55

• Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Leadership, Hope, Motivation

• Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hope, Enough, Anxious

• Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Hope, Anticipation

• Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Hope, Pain

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.233, Delphi Classics

• We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hope, Despair, All Things

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Cyrus Hamlin (1987). “Verse Plays and Epic”, p.107, Princeton University Press

• Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hope, Prayer, Saint

• Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hope, No Hope, Future Life

• Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hope, Soul, Unhappy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3536, Delphi Classics

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