Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world

Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Topics: Character Quotes, Talent Quotes

Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has...

Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has...

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at...

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at...

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay...

Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay...

The little man is still a man.

The little man is still a man.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is...

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is...

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

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

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the...

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the...

The society of women is the element of good manners.

The society of women is the element of good manners.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that...

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that...

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

I'll take a breath, take you by my side Under the sunlight, Welcome to this...

I'll take a breath, take you by my side Under the sunlight, Welcome to this...

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be...

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be...

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

Impartiality is the life of justice, as justice is of all good government.

Impartiality is the life of justice, as justice is of all good government.

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

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

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end,...

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end,...

One does not make friends. One recognizes them.

One does not make friends. One recognizes them.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.