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