Birth Date of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

I call architecture frozen music.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.