There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All things are only transitory.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Live dangerously and you live right.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

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

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every second is of infinite value.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To accept good advice is but to increase one’s own ability.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe