Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be patient in dealing with our neighbour's faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? He who is fretted by his own failings will not correct them. All profitable correction comes from a calm and peaceful mind.

Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

I make many mistakes. Many mistakes. I'm not a perfect human being. I have to learn from my mistakes. And a lot of the ones I've made have been public. So I always get nervous when people speak about something that sounds like a role model, because I don't know if I've been a great role model myself.

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

I'm a human being. I'm not perfect.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

You cannot force somebody to be a different person.

One of the biggest challenges for me is that I'm still a human being. I'm a very imperfect human being. I'm very open about the fact that I'm not trying to pretend to be better than anyone else.

I'm not a perfect person. I never will be. I'm not going to try to be.

How am I different than anyone else? I'm a human being, and I have my faults, too.

Learning to love yourself is not going to happen overnight - the first step is trying to be kinder and more patient with yourself, and I understand that it takes time.

I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.

I love myself for all my mistakes and missteps. They have been very valuable to me. They have taught me many things. It is the way I learn. I am willing to stop punishing myself for my mistakes.

I can’t hate people for making judgment on me, or making a decision of liking me or not liking me. All I can do is try to better as a person. And I’m good with knowing everything isn’t always going to be perfect.

There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble.

I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage

Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.

One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.

We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.

I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed.

I've always been someone who is pretty hard on herself. But I've lightened up a lot.

I think there are many faces to everyone. I also have my bad sides. Also I think everyone is trying to improve their shortcomings to become more wholesome.