Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Thinking is easy; action is difficult; to act in accordance with one’s thought is the most difficult thing in the world.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is.

To understand is difficult; to act is easy.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing.

Saying is one thing and doing is another.

Ideas lead to actions.

For this the Gospel offers us a serene way forward: using the three languages of the mind, heart and hands - and to use them in harmony. What you think, you must feel and put into effect. Your information comes down to your heart and you put it into practice. Harmoniously. What you think, you feel, and you do. Feel what you think and feel what you do. Do what you think and what you feel. The three languagesTo think. To feel. To do. And all in harmony.

That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into things.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

Action is stronger than subjectivity. No matter what you feel or think, you can still act.

Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.

Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'

Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.

As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought.

We need to give thought, but we also need to take action. You need to dream without just being a dreamer.

To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

What we say we believe makes very little difference until we act on our belief