Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The doer alone learneth.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

All learning is in the learner, not in the teacher.

I'm psyched about what I can contribute that can be meaningful to myself and to others.

We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.

The truth is that an intellectual life is available to almost anyone, almost anywhere, if they work hard enough and are given some kind of access point.

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.

If you would rise, do so alone.

Your success and happiness start with you.

All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.

Rise above your circumstances, change the world one person at a time starting with you, and be the inspiration you’ve been searching for.

All the people who knock me down, only inspire me to do better.

I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.

I believe in getting a good education to be able to go out into the world and make a difference.

Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

Education is what allows you to stand out

Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

Self-help is the best help

Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.

If we continue to show young girls that they are being compared to other girls, we’re doing ourselves a huge disservice as a society. I surround myself with smart, beautiful, passionate, driven, ambitious women. Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you rather than threaten you and make you feel like you’re immediately being compared to them. The only thing I compare myself to is me, two years ago, or me one year ago.

How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform; to entertain, when they might instruct; and to dazzle for an hour, when they are candidates for eternity!

And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly grateful for instruction, whether it was how to stroke a backhand, mix a martini, use a wallpaper steamer, or do the Twist. My wife, too, seemed willing to learn. Old as we must have looked to our children, we were still taking lessons, in how to be grown-up.