Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of douts of my own.”

“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”

“Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.”

“The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.”

“Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.”

“Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.”

“People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.”

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

“Great talent finds happiness in execution.”

“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”

“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”

“Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.”