Goethe Quotes
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.
I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
This is the true measure 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 ever love in the same way after us.
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.