Johann von Goethe

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

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.

If you miss the first buttonhole you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken you study mineralogy best among miners and so with everything else.

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

Faith is hidden household capital.

Man must strive and in striving he must err.

Man errs as long as he struggles.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

Nature reacts not only to physical disease but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage.

What you can do or dream you can do begin it boldness has genius power and magic in it.

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

Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.

Life belongs to the living and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

We must always change renew rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.

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