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If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.

If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Want, Treats, Traits

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Time, Money, Greatest Wealth

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Eye, Hardest, Hardest Thing

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Positive, Teamwork, Responsibility

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happiness, Teaching, Use

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Communication, Misunderstood, Society

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Motivational, Softball

Everything is hard before it is easy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People, Way, Treats

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational, Success, Believe

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational, Change, Clever

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happiness, Being Happy, Peace

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Freedom, Government, History
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.99, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wise, Live Life, Men

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Moving, Commitment, Misunderstood

Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tattoo, Body, Return
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.67, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Education, Truth, School

Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Trust Yourself, Art Of Living
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1965). “Goethe's Faust, Parts I and II”

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational, Mistake, Thinking

We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Respect, Character, Men

The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Eye, Night, Reality

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational, Friendship, Nature
"'Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre' ('Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship')". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1796.

It is opposition that makes us productive.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Opposition, Productive

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Book, Daily Life
"Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann".

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Time, Age, Faults

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