More Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.
