Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Praise

• 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.

• A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Self Esteem, Self Respect, Literature

• Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Nature, Hate

• You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Children, Simple

• There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Peers, Noble

• One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sympathy, Blame, Praise

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1882). “The Autobiography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry From My Own Life”, p.576, Library of Alexandria

• Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Half, Busy, Praise

• I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Speak, Praise, Speakers

• Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Acting, Matter, Actors

• In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Praise

• When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Praise, Equal

• The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Poetry, World, Faults

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