Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

Great talent finds happiness in execution.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply!

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

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

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of douts of my own.

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

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.