More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Character develops itself in the stream of life."
"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."
"Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!"
"Es ist nicht genug, zu wissen, man muß auch anwenden; es ist nicht genug, zu wollen, man muß auch tun."
"The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become."