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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes about work

Deutsch Poet August 28, 1749 – March 22, 1832

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Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Father! Whom I do not know! Father! who filled all my soul and who has now turned His countenance away from me! Call me to You! Be silent no longer! Your silence will not stay this thirsting soul—and could a person, a father, be angry whose son, unexpectedly returning, threw himself on his neck and cried: Father! I have come back! Don’t be angry that I am breaking off the travels that you meant for me to endure longer. The world is everywhere the same, in effort and work, reward and joy, but... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Woe to him who could look on and say: The fool! If she had waited, if she had let time do its work, her despair would surely have subsided, another man would have turned up to comfort her? That's just like saying: The fool, dying of fever! If she had waited until his strength returned, his circulation improved, the tumult of his blood calmed down, everything would have turned out well and he would still be alive today! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally..."
Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story. To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me; but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it; and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries, to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trustseek every possible impressionand make it firmly your posessionyou'll then work on because you must. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even..."
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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