Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

For each of our actions there are only consequences.

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.

We are all farmers tending a little part of the Lord's vineyard.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

Deeds are fruits, words are leaves

Actions have consequences.

If you like being patted on the back for the good times you have to be prepared to take the bad times.

We all make decisions, and within those decisions, we have consequences.

As you have sown so shall you reap.

At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.

Life responds to deserve and not to need. It doesn't say,"If you need,you will reap." It says,"If you plant you will reap."The guys says,"I really need to reap."Then you really need to plant.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.

In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.

You cannot expect to get the effect when you neglect to create the cause.

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

As the means, so the end.

There's a lot of work that needs to be done, and there's a difference between talking the talk and walking the walk.