Quotes from Johann von Goethe

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.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

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.

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.

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.

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

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

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Nature reacts not only to physical disease but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage.