Goethe Quotes (41+)

Enjoy the best Goethe Quotes. Quotations by Goethe (German Polymath)
Jan 01, 1970 - Jan 01, 1970

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow

Great talent finds happiness in execution

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply

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

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

Character develops itself in the stream of life

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live

First love is the foundation upon which all other loves are built.

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.

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.

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

About the Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was a titan of German literature, a polymath whose works like 'Faust' and 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' influenced all of Western thought.