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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes about Time

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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1882). “The Autobiography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry From My Own Life”, p.394, Library of Alexandria

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Carl Friedrich Zelter (1892). “Goethe's Letters to Zelter: With Extracts from Those of Zelter to Goethe”

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.760, Delphi Classics

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Parke Godwin (1848). “The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life”, p.59

Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1924). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.217, Library of Alexandria