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German - Poet August 28, 1749 - March 22, 1832

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Grow Nobody Somebody Everybody

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character World Stormy Formed

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character Aim Everyone Chief

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Coward Only Safe He Threatens

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man Moment Right Who

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man Perfection Enough Admit

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love Does Dominate

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty Welcome Guest Everywhere

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Religion Together End Will

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love Heart Behavior Courtesy

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Joy Destiny Sympathy Know

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man Belief He Made

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love Men Relationship Young Promise

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Pictures Story Own Tell

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You Understand Whatever Cannot

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man Wishes Happens Anything

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature Progress Development Pause

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Eyes Your See Hardest

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man Mirror Manners Portrait

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

World Door Will Own Everyone

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Freedom Believe Free More

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life Step Every Step Caution

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Society Solitude Only Inspired

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Destiny Way Wishes Own

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness Feet Push Run

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature Children Birds Taste How

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