Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.

It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

I think purpose is the most important thing because once you understand that, everything else becomes easy.

The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.

Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.

I'm here to make sense.

Maybe people become bitter when they don't know what they are fighting for. But I keep my eyes open.

Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

I think that anytime you get clear about what your mission is or what your focus wants to be, things start to come together in your life.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost.

What's missing from the world is a sense of direction.

Trying to work out where you find meaning and sense in a meaningless world is my obsession.

It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it.

Your purpose...should always be to know...the whole that was intended to be known.

A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.

To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you're going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction.

There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

The eyes of my eyes are opened.

Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here.

Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there.

I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.

Quality … has to do with intention.