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 best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We are shaped and fashioned by those we love.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The first sign we don’t know what we are doing is an obsession with numbers.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
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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
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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
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
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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
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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