Best quotes by Goethe

Best quotes by Goethe
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.

Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you’ll know right away what you amount to.

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.

One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

A useless life is an early death.

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

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

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