Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDifficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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