What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEKnowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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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 dreadful than imagination without taste.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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