The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is…
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One ought every day at least to hear…
One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever you can do or dream you can…
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are shaped and fashioned by those we…
We are shaped and fashioned by those we love.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The first sign we don’t know what we…
The first sign we don’t know what we are doing is an obsession with numbers.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We must always change renew rejuvenate ourselves otherwise…
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
What is my life if I am no…
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Only by joy and sorrow does a person…
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I find the great thing in this world…
I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already…
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Magic is believing in yourself if you can…
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If I accept you as you are I…
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When we treat man as he is we…
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Correction does much but encouragement does more
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward they…
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe