Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Quotes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His works include epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him exist.

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17 Quotes

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Character develops itself in the stream of life."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him."

— 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

"A really great talent finds its happiness in execution."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Correction does much, but encouragement does more."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply!"

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Great talent finds happiness in execution."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of douts of my own."