Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Everything is hard before it is easy.

To wish is not enough, you must do. To know is not enough you must apply it.

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up

The deed is all, the glory nothing.

The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else

Impartiality is the life of justice, as justice is of all good government

Which is the best government That which teaches us to govern ourselves

All greatness in the world came about because someone did more than he had to do.

The smallest hair throws its shadow

Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure yet it is the same with this art as with all others only the capacity for it is innate the art itself must be learned and painstaking

Without haste, but without rest.

I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.

Each one sees what he carries in his heart

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a human.

To a valet no man is a hero

I can promise to be sincere, but not to be impartial

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days

If your treat an individual ... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing

Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.

Our senses don't deceive us our judgment does

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

All our knowledge is symbolic.