17 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes on Motivation

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes on motivation

2. One lives but once in the world.

16. One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

25. Willst du immer weiterschweifen? Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah. Lerne nur das Gluck ergreifen, denn das Gluck ist immer da.

34. Wer nichts wagt, gerwinnt nichts. Wer nie sein Brod mit Tranen ass, Wer nie die kummervollen Nachte Auf seinem Bette weinend sass, Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Machte.

41. A useless life is an early death.

43. Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.

61. A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

63. Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt.

70. Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

80. I love those who yearn for the impossible.

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

103. Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

122. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

134. The deed is everything, the glory naught.

144. To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

152. Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

155. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.