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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes,Johann, Wolfgang, von, Goethe, author, authors, writer, writers, people, famous people My Account Help Add. Famous Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Poet. To think is easy. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

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.

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

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.

He only earns his freedom and existence who daily conquers them anew.

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

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.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.

Let these quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe help you to have a positive attitude toward life, and to think positively.

Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike;
there is but one step from envy to hate.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are nine requisites for contented living:
HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
WEALTH enough to support your needs;
STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;
GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them;
PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;
CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;
LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;
FAITH enough to make real the things of God;
HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is.
Treat a man as he can and should be,
and he will become as he can and should be.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be,
and you'll help them to become
what they are capable of becoming.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Today is your day to paint life in bold colors;
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum;
walk today's march with courage;
create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll

Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small -
with courage and intent.
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy

As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, 'yes.'
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
'I will try again tomorrow.'
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott

Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
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The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
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Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
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This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb

The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
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Life expands to fill your dreams.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
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One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell

All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous

Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer

As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, 'Yes!'
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
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You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela

It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb

Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
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A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot

Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole
for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast
and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat -
dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No one was ever named 'Hero' for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
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The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

Be curious; be adventurous; live life full-out.
Accept the challenge, and reach for the brass ring.
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Winners Dream Big Dreams.
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Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
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Today is your day to Spread Wing and Soar.
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous

I Act with Bold Courage:
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step -
large and small - with courage and intent.
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We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell

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Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead

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