Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes


312 quotes:

"If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything."
Author: Goethe Quotes Category: Procrastination Quotes
"He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it."
Author: Goethe Quotes Category: Prejudice Quotes
"If you 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."
Author: Goethe Quotes Category: Praise Quotes
"When you praise someone you call yourself his equal"
Author: Goethe Quotes Category: Praise Quotes
"I do not speak of what I cannot praise."
Author: Goethe Quotes Category: Praise Quotes Speakers And Speaking Quotes
"A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise."
Author: Goethe Quotes Category: Praise Quotes Self-esteem Quotes
"The philosopher must station themselves in the middle."
Author: Goethe Quotes Category: Philosophers And Philosophy Quotes
"To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone."
Author: Goethe Quotes Category: Persuasion Quotes
"Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded."
Author: Goethe Quotes Category: Persuasion Quotes
"People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them."
Author: Goethe Quotes Category: Persuasion Quotes
"Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it."
Author: Goethe Quotes Category: Persuasion Quotes Purpose Quotes
"We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives."
Author: Goethe Quotes Category: Perseverance Quotes
"Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time."
Author: Goethe Quotes Category: Perseverance Quotes
"People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one."
Author: Goethe Quotes Category: People Quotes Retirement Quotes
"The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do."
Author: Goethe Quotes Category: Patience Quotes
"Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers."
Author: Goethe Quotes Category: Passion Quotes
"Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes."
Author: Goethe Quotes Category: Passion Quotes
"There are two things parents should give their children: roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly)."
Author: Goethe Quotes Category: Parents Quotes
"As our inclinations, so our opinions"
Author: Goethe Quotes Category: Opinions Quotes
"No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?"
Author: Goethe Quotes Category: Opinions Quotes

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