Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Before you can do something you must first be something.

I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.

the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.

it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.

What you are will make you what you will become.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

What you are comes to you.

I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

As I learn more about myself, I think people learn more about me as well. It seems to correlate that way. I learn how to represent myself more as it goes on.