Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Time

• Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Money, Greatest Wealth

• One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Management, Enough

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1882). “The Autobiography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry From My Own Life”, p.394, Library of Alexandria

• What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Motivational, Softball

• We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Yesterday, Today

• Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Yesterday, Mindfulness

• Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Thinking, Imagine

• Every second is of infinite value.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Helping, Infinite

• Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Circles, Debtors

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.760, Delphi Classics

• All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Wisdom, Time

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

• We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Age, Faults

• Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Time

• Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Tolerance, Age

• Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Tyrants, Different Faces

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.80, Ravenio Books

• The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Destiny, People

• How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Inheritance, Broads

• Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element.
  Time is itself an element.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Elements, Dies

• The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Appreciation, Time, Appreciate

• The present moment is a powerful goddess.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Time, Powerful

• Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Awkward, Youth

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Parke Godwin (1848). “The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life”, p.59

• Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Time, Children

• The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Wish, Age

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Carl Friedrich Zelter (1892). “Goethe's Letters to Zelter: With Extracts from Those of Zelter to Goethe”

• Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Heart, Honor

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1924). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.217, Library of Alexandria

• Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Long, Age

• It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Age, Faults

• However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence. . . . Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Book, Exercise

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