Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

There is no hope without endeavor.

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

To the stars through thorns.

You go out and do the best you can and hope it works. You just try to improve.

You know, 'people like us,' it involves... it's everybody who has struggled, you know what I'm saying? Everybody who has... who has had a difficult time getting to where they want to be, and now they can look at us as examples of, 'Hey, I can do this because they did it and I see it happening. Maybe I can do it, too.'

Work hard for what you want in life.

I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.

We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.

If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.

I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.

But tomorrow I see a change, a chance to build anew, built on Spirit, intent of heart, and ideas based on truth. Tomorrow I wake with second wind and strong ideas of pride. I know I fought with all my heart to keep the dream alive.

Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.

Life is a challenge, we must take it.

It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

Life is difficult no matter what, but hard work and perseverance make it a lot easier.

He was never without misery, and never without hope.

You can't win what you don't fight for.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

Hope is the poor man's bread.

Effort is the siamese twin of success