10 inspirational johann wolfgang von goethe quotes on success

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.