Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEYou can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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Remember to live.
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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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