Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

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

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

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

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

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

In art the best is good enough.