Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

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

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

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

You are the best lessons you learn from life. I have grown up learning from my life.

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.

I just keep surprising myself, I guess.

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.

Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.