•“Everything is hard before it is easy” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“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 Wolfgang von Goethe

•“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love ” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” 
― 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

•“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength” 
― 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

•“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“If I love you, what business is it of yours?” 
― 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

•“knowing is not enough,we must apply willing is not enough,we must do..” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognising a truth which has already been recognised by others.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“A person who does not know the history of the last 3,000 years wanders in the darkness of ignorance, unable to make sense of the reality around him” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“If we put ourselves in the place of other people, the jealousy and hatred we so often feel about them would disappear, and if we put others in our place, pride and conceit would greatly diminish.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“Conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess. ” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes” 
― 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

•“There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not posses them needs religion.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine” 
― 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

•“Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. ” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“Talent develops in solitude, character develops in the stream of life.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe