Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Each nation has to find its own path and follow that path at its own speed.

No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

The only ones who can really benefit by consulting the model are those who can produce their effect without a model.

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to live. It's all for him.

We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

Whenever you want to produce something, do not depend upon the outside source: go deep and seek the Infinite Source.

I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.

I didnt want to be encumbered by what anyone elses abilities were, their equipment or environment or their ability to get certain products.

No. I don't want to need anybody. I want someone to need me ... I want someone to need me.

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

The more independent you want to be, the more generous you must be with yourself as a woman.

I don't turn to anyone for advice. I do what I want.

I don't want to ever think that I don't know what to do. I want to deal with my own things, to perform my own roles, to be like, "I did this."

No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives you a chance to be happy.

I want to grow up as an actress and as a woman. Be independent.

People can think what they want to think, I don't go after people. I think most people I talk to, like me, are very quiet and keep to themselves, they maintain their lives.

Don't do anything that someone else can do.

When you say that I have followers, let me assure you that I do not want followers, nor would I ever encourage the idea of following.

If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.