Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

• What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• To create something you must be something.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (262)

Birth:	28th August, 1749
Death:	22nd March, 1832
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Politician

About

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He was a German poet, novelist, philosopher, playwright, and politician. He wrote several plays include: Götz von Berlichingen, Clavigo, Stella, Iphigenia in Tauris, Egmont, Torquato Tasso, The Citizen General, The Natural Daughter, and Faust. He wrote several poems include: The King in Thule, Welcome and Farewell, Erlkönig, Prometheus, Roman Elegies, Hermann and Dorothea, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and Marienbad Elegy. He wrote several novels include: The Sorrows of Young Werther, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Elective Affinities, and Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years.

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