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- As it is a joy to enjoy what is good, so it is a greater joy to experience what is better, and in art the best is good enough. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe For a woman, she has extraordinary talent. One must look for what she does, not what she fails to do.
- Johann von Goethe: Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
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Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike;
there is but one step from envy to hate.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are nine requisites for contented living:
HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
WEALTH enough to support your needs;
STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;
GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome 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
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is.
Treat a man as he can and should be,
and he will become as he can and should be.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be,
and you'll help them to become
what they are capable of becoming.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Today is your day to paint life in bold colors;
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum;
walk today's march with courage;
create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small -
with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, 'yes.'
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
'I will try again tomorrow.'
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
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The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
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This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life expands to fill your dreams.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
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One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Goethe Quotes Art
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, 'Yes!'
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
Faust Quotes Goethe
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Quotes Goethe Nature
Smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole
for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast
and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat -
dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one was ever named 'Hero' for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Be curious; be adventurous; live life full-out.
Accept the challenge, and reach for the brass ring.
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Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is your day to Spread Wing and Soar.
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
I Act with Bold Courage:
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step -
large and small - with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
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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
- “Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “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
- “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
- “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
“Enjoy what you can endure what you must.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
“To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “At the moment of commitment, the entire universe conspires to assist you.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “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
- “Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “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
“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “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
- “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
- “People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “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
“Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “If you want to make life easy, make it hard.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Everything is hard before it is easy.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “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
“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “I am what I am, so take me as I am!.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “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
- “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
- “Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “I love those who yearn for the impossible.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Correction does much, but encouragement does more.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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