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Success & Failure
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Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
-Johann von Goethe
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
-Johann von Goethe
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Superstition
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Superstition is the poetry of life.
-Johann von Goethe
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Support
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
-Johann von Goethe
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Sympathy
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Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
-Johann von Goethe
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Talent
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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
-Johann von Goethe
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
-Johann von Goethe
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To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
-Johann von Goethe
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Teamwork
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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
-Johann von Goethe
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Thought
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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
-Johann von Goethe
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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.
-Johann von Goethe
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
-Johann von Goethe
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Time
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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
-Johann von Goethe
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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.
-Johann von Goethe
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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
-Johann von Goethe
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Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
-Johann von Goethe
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Travel
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Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.
-Johann von Goethe
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Trust
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
-Johann von Goethe
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Truth
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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
-Johann von Goethe
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Understanding
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To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed -- That can make life a garden.
-Johann von Goethe
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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
-Johann von Goethe
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
-Johann von Goethe
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Unrequited Love
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I do not now begin,--I still adore
Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast;
Then once again with prudence dispossess'd,
And to whose heart I'm driven back once more.
The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love,
Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad...
(translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring)
-Johann von Goethe, (poems)
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War
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
-Johann von Goethe
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Weakness
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Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble.
-Johann von Goethe
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Books by and about Johann von Goethe