Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

It's easy to point out the evil in other people, but that can be found in all of us. That selfishness, that is something we all have in us. Sometimes you are successful at dealing with it, and sometimes you are not.

Everybody has been told already that they're too shy, too aggressive, too emotional, too reserved. They know what their fatal flaw is. They know the one thing to do to get better. But they just don't commit to changing because they feel a little bit in love with it, a little bit in love with the way they've been.

I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.

Have an open mind and an open heart. I'm not this bad person. I'm just doing what I have to do.

I see and praise what is better, but follow what is worse.

Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.

I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

All of us have areas of weakness. God wants these character flaws to show us how totally dependent we are upon Him. When we handle them properly, they drive us into a deeper, more intimate relationship with the Lord. But uncontrolled weakness wreaks havoc in a person's life.

Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.

We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.

The only one who can beat me is me.

I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

I'm not perfect in my walk but I want to do the right thing.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.