Best Famous Quotes by: John Glenn, Germain G. Glidden, Jan Glidewell, Max Gluckman, Robert H. Goddard, Maurice Godelier, Arthur Godfrey, Gail Godwin, Mike Godwin, George Goethals, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann von Goethe, Sidney Goff, Vincent Van Gogh, Nikolai Gogol, Robert F. Goheen, Thaddeus Golas, Sharon Gold, Vic Gold, Isaac Goldberg, Natalie Goldberg, Arthur Golden, Allan Goldfein, William Golding, Emma Goldman, William Goldman, Joel S. Goldsmith, Oliver Goldsmith, Bobcat Goldthwaite, and Barry Goldwater

Best John Glenn Quotes: The most famous quotes by John Glenn

I don’t know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets. — John Glenn

There is still no cure for the common birthday. — John Glenn

Best Germain G. Glidden Quotes: The most famous quotes by Germain G. Glidden

The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don’t talk much. — Germain G. Glidden

Best Jan Glidewell Quotes: The most famous quotes by Jan Glidewell

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. — Jan Glidewell

Best Max Gluckman Quotes: The most famous quotes by Max Gluckman

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. — Max Gluckman

Best Robert H. Goddard Quotes: The most famous quotes by Robert H. Goddard

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. — Robert H. Goddard

Best Maurice Godelier Quotes: The most famous quotes by Maurice Godelier

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. — Maurice Godelier

Best Arthur Godfrey Quotes: The most famous quotes by Arthur Godfrey

I’m proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is — I could be just as proud for half the money. — Arthur Godfrey

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. — Arthur Godfrey

Best Gail Godwin Quotes: The most famous quotes by Gail Godwin

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. — Gail Godwin

Best Mike Godwin Quotes: The most famous quotes by Mike Godwin

I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she’s too young to have logged on yet. Here’s what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say ‘Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet’ — Mike Godwin

Best George Goethals Quotes: The most famous quotes by George Goethals

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice. — George Goethals

Best Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes: The most famous quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I love those who yearn for the impossible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If I love you, what business is it of yours — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who seizes the right moment is the right man. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The unnatural, that too is natural. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whenever I hear people talking about ‘liberal ideas,’ I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man’s errors are what make him amiable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Death is Nature’s expert advice to get plenty of Life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I call architecture frozen music. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man’s life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character develops itself in the stream of life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If your treat an individual … as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The society of women is the element of good manners. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is not fully understood is not possessed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The highest happiness of man … is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our friends show us what we can do our enemies teach us what we must do. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life is the childhood of our immortality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One man’s word is no man’s word we should quietly hear both sides. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everybody wants to be somebody nobody wants to grow. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man of understanding finds everything laughable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are never deceived we deceive ourselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Know’st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket’s gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become as he can and should be. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components love, adventure, power and fame. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,– He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Plunge boldly into the thick of life — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A clever man commits no minor blunders. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstood others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How can you come to know yourself Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you’ll know right away what you amount to. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Best Johann von Goethe Quotes: The most famous quotes by Johann von Goethe

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit – this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. — Johann von Goethe

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. — Johann von Goethe

Everybody wants to be somebody nobody wants to grow. — Johann von Goethe

Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do. — Johann von Goethe

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe. — Johann von Goethe

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. — Johann von Goethe

I love those who yearn for the impossible. — Johann von Goethe

If I love you, what business is it of yours — Johann von Goethe

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us. — Johann von Goethe

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom. — Johann von Goethe

He who seizes the right moment is the right man. — Johann von Goethe

The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before. — Johann von Goethe

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life. — Johann von Goethe

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. — Johann von Goethe

The unnatural, that too is natural. — Johann von Goethe

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law. — Johann von Goethe

He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure. — Johann von Goethe

The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks. — Johann von Goethe

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation. — Johann von Goethe

Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. — Johann von Goethe

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age. — Johann von Goethe

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action. — Johann von Goethe

A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own. — Johann von Goethe

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. — Johann von Goethe

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. — Johann von Goethe

Whenever I hear people talking about ‘liberal ideas,’ I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions. — Johann von Goethe

A man’s errors are what make him amiable. — Johann von Goethe

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut. — Johann von Goethe

Death is Nature’s expert advice to get plenty of Life. — Johann von Goethe

I call architecture frozen music. — Johann von Goethe

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed. — Johann von Goethe

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny. — Johann von Goethe

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. — Johann von Goethe

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man’s life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. — Johann von Goethe

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him. — Johann von Goethe

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. — Johann von Goethe

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. — Johann von Goethe

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. — Johann von Goethe

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. — Johann von Goethe

Character develops itself in the stream of life. — Johann von Goethe

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. — Johann von Goethe

If your treat an individual … as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. — Johann von Goethe

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. — Johann von Goethe

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. — Johann von Goethe

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at. — Johann von Goethe

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. — Johann von Goethe

The society of women is the element of good manners. — Johann von Goethe

What is not fully understood is not possessed. — Johann von Goethe

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. — Johann von Goethe

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension. — Johann von Goethe

We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann von Goethe

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. — Johann von Goethe

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

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. — Johann von Goethe

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal. — Johann von Goethe

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann von Goethe

The highest happiness of man … is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. — Johann von Goethe

I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. — Johann von Goethe

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. — Johann von Goethe

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color. — Johann von Goethe

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green. — Johann von Goethe

Our friends show us what we can do our enemies teach us what we must do. — Johann von Goethe

One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going. — Johann von Goethe

What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves. — Johann von Goethe

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss. — Johann von Goethe

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds. — Johann von Goethe

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. — Johann von Goethe

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator. — Johann von Goethe

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty. — Johann von Goethe

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards. — Johann von Goethe

Life is the childhood of our immortality. — Johann von Goethe

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. — Johann von Goethe

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. — Johann von Goethe

One man’s word is no man’s word we should quietly hear both sides. — Johann von Goethe

The man of understanding finds everything laughable. — Johann von Goethe

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

We are never deceived we deceive ourselves. — Johann von Goethe

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own. — Johann von Goethe

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings. — Johann von Goethe

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. — Johann von Goethe

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits. — Johann von Goethe

Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient. — Johann von Goethe

It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish. — Johann von Goethe

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own. — Johann von Goethe

Know’st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket’s gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose — Johann von Goethe

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. — Johann von Goethe

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. — Johann von Goethe

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man. — Johann von Goethe

Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something. — Johann von Goethe

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become as he can and should be. — Johann von Goethe

Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components love, adventure, power and fame. — Johann von Goethe

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. — Johann von Goethe

Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,– He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers. — Johann von Goethe

Plunge boldly into the thick of life — Johann von Goethe

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed — Johann von Goethe

Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action. — Johann von Goethe

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next. — Johann von Goethe

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. — Johann von Goethe

Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. — Johann von Goethe

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. — Johann von Goethe

A clever man commits no minor blunders. — Johann von Goethe

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. — Johann von Goethe

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. — Johann von Goethe

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live. — Johann von Goethe

Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error. — Johann von Goethe

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden. — Johann von Goethe

No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstood others. — Johann von Goethe

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. — Johann von Goethe

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman. — Johann von Goethe

Best Sidney Goff Quotes: The most famous quotes by Sidney Goff

A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you’re in deep water. — Sidney Goff

Best Vincent Van Gogh Quotes: The most famous quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

I wish they would only take me as I am. — Vincent Van Gogh

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. — Vincent Van Gogh

The best way to know God is to love many things. — Vincent Van Gogh

Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. — Vincent Van Gogh

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. — Vincent Van Gogh

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle. — Vincent Van Gogh

How can I be useful, of what service can I be There is something inside me, what can it be — Vincent Van Gogh

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way. — Vincent Van Gogh

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. — Vincent Van Gogh

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything — Vincent Van Gogh

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures. — Vincent Van Gogh

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent. — Vincent Van Gogh

If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things. — Vincent Van Gogh

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. — Vincent Van Gogh

Do not quench your inspiration and your inmagination do not become the slave of your model. — Vincent Van Gogh

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. — Vincent Van Gogh

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul. — Vincent Van Gogh

There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. — Vincent Van Gogh

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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry. — Nikolai Gogol

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If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. — Robert F. Goheen

In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling. — Robert F. Goheen

If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. — Robert F. Goheen

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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. — Thaddeus Golas

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Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you’re waking up to instant stress. You shouldn’t be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it’s time to start your day. — Sharon Gold

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The squeaking wheel doesn’t always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced. — Vic Gold

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Diplomacy is to do and say, The nastiest thing in the nicest way. — Isaac Goldberg

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Anything you fully do is an alone journey. — Natalie Goldberg

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. — Natalie Goldberg

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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. — Arthur Golden

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Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd. — Allan Goldfein

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years. — William Golding

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No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. — Emma Goldman

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity the least divergence from it is the greatest crime. — Emma Goldman

The most violent element in society is ignorance. — Emma Goldman

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. — Emma Goldman

Crime is naught but misdirected energy. — Emma Goldman

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Life is pain, highness Anyone who says differently is selling something. — William Goldman

Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all. — William Goldman

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God must become an activity in our consciousness. — Joel S. Goldsmith

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The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other downThe swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While secret laughter titter’d round the placeThe bashful virgin’s side-long looks of love,The matrons glance that would those looks reproveThese were thy charms, sweet village sports like these,With sweet succession, taught e’en toil to pleaseThese were thy bowers their cheerful influence shed,These were thy charms — but all these charms are fled. — Oliver Goldsmith

Ask me no questions, and I’ll tell you no fibs. — Oliver Goldsmith

Hope, like the gleaming taper’s light, Adorns and cheers our way And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. — Oliver Goldsmith

Don’t let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter. — Oliver Goldsmith

Ill fares the land, to hast’ning ill a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade A breath can make them, as a breath has made but a bold peasantry, their country’s pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. — Oliver Goldsmith

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America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. — Bobcat Goldthwaite

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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. — Barry Goldwater

None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers If you love your country, don’t depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don’t leave it all up to big government. — Barry Goldwater

I wouldn’t trust Nixon from here to that phone. — Barry Goldwater

To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering. — Barry Goldwater

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