More Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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.
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.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
