Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Rage Quotations

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything." (Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)

To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

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

Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color....

The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]

Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.