Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Motivational Quotes

• Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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

• If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Literature

• 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.

• Doubt can only be removed by action.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Fear, Doubt

  Thomas Carlyle, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué (Freiherr de), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Karl August Musäus (1827). “Wilhelm Meister's travels”, p.8

• Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Success, Leadership

• What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Motivational, Softball

• A person hears only what they understand.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Positive, Positivity

• Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Courage, Clever

• To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Artist, And Love

• Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

• Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Motivational, Fitness

• Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

• If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Writing, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.95, Ravenio Books

• Everything is hard before it is easy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

• Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Attributed to Goethe by Johannes Falk in "Goethe aus näherm persönlichen Umgange dargestellt", 1832.

• Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Adversity

  Maxims and Reflections (1819)

• Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Motivational, Thinking

• If you want to make life easy, make it hard.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Motivational, Positive

• 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

• 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

• The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Lying, Adversity

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

• Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

• 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

• Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Beautiful, Looks

• The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Motivational, Romantic

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