
List of quotes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here."
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life."
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be."
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals."
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one."
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better."
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else."
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe O Magazine
"What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"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."
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place."
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"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."
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"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."
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"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."
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity."
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe