Quotes by Johann von Goethe

Time is my estate: to Time Im heir.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men but austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in whether he has the aptitude for it or not.

Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension.

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

If God had wanted me otherwise He would have created me otherwise.

I am what I am so take me as I am!

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

God made man simple but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired.

Every second is of infinite value.

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.