45 Motivational Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes On Success

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His works include four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; and treatises on botany, anatomy, and color. This Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes on language, freedom will motivate you.

Best Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

1. “Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2. “None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3. “None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
4. “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.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

5. “Enjoy what you can endure what you must.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

6. “A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
7. “Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
8. “You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
9. “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.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
10. “Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
11. “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.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
12. “To the world, you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
13. “We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

14. “To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

15. “At the moment of commitment, the entire universe conspires to assist you.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
16. “Doesn’t surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
17. “Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
18. “What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
19. “Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake 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

20. “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

21. “Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
22. “What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
23. “The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred…unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
24. “It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
25. “People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
26. “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.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

27. “Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

28. “If you want to make life easy, make it hard.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
29. “The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
30. “Everything is hard before it is easy.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
31. “The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
32. “One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
33. “Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
34. “Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
35. “The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

36. “We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

37. “If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
38. “I am what I am, so take me as I am!.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
39. “Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
40. “Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
41. “Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
42. “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
43. “Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
44. “I love those who yearn for the impossible.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
45. “Correction does much, but encouragement does more.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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