21 Quotes by Johann von Goethe

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

Willing is not enough, we must do.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still.

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

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.