YSU Ijevan Branch is pleased to share famous sayings and quotes by VOLFGANG von GOETHE

1. There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
2. The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
3. 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.
4. The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
5. Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
6. The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
7. Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
8. There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
9. In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.
10. Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
11. Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
12. In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.
13. Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
14. Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
15. If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
16. Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
17. The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
18. Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
19. Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
20. There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.
21. Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
22. Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
23. In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
24. Every step of life shows much caution is required.
25. The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
26. Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
27. Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
28. Life is the childhood of our immortality.
29. Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
30. Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
31. What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
32. The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
33. Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
34. What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
35. Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
36. The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
37. The little man is still a man.
38. Personality is everything in art and poetry.
39. If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
40. It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
41. The world remains ever the same.
42. If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
43. All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.