Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Success

• Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Success, Believe

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Success, Leadership

• 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

• 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.

• You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Success, War, Suffering

• Live dangerously and you live right.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Success, Insightful

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre (1957). “Goethe's Faust, Part 1: New American Version”, p.125, New Directions Publishing

• For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Success, Confidence, Men

• The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Success, Errors, Long

• Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Success, Men, Envy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1850). “Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life; Or, The Autobiography of Goethe”, p.92

• 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

• Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Success, Song

  'Faust' pt. 1 (1808) 'Studierzimmer'

• Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Success, Three Things, Execution

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1873). “Novels and Tales”, p.57

• Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Success, Encouragement, Character

• Yes, my love, who soever lives, loses, . . . but he also wins.
  [Ger., Ja, meine Liebe, wer lebt, verliebt . . . aber er gewinnt auch.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Success, Winning, Loses

• The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Success, Mistake, Errors

• On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Success, Men, Discipline

• We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Success, Giving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.70

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