Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

In order to do something you must be something.

The best way to be, is to do.

If you are not something, how do you become it? It is not obvious to me that you can be something you are not.

It is not making better people of others that management is about. It's about making a better person of self. Income, power, and titles have nothing to do with that.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

I just think that we're capable of so much more; we don't utilize all our capacity like we should.

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.

I really want to keep at it until I find out what I'm capable of.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

You've got to be before you can do and do before you can have.

Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

I think most people can do a whole lot more if they just try.

That which we are, we are.

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I move ahead, I live.

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

No one knows what he can do until he tries.