Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

When things don't come so naturally to you, you want to persevere, you want to keep pushing yourself to overcome obstacles that prevent you from having the kind of life that you want to have.

He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.

Every single day I wake up and commit myself to becoming a better player. Some days it happens, and some days it doesn't. Sure, there are games I'm going to dominate and there are going to be games when I struggle. But it doesn't mean I give up.

Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.

The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person. Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless. Should temporary setbacks afflict us, a very significant part of our struggle for self-discipline is the determination and the courage to try again....Eternal life in the kingdom of our Father is your goal, and self-discipline will surely be required if you are to achieve it.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

You are not going to be perfect every day. It's about turning up the next day and doing it again.

When you've something to fight for, you get the best out of yourself.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

Make the wise man within you your living ideal.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

My comfort wasn't the most important thing - my getting through to the other side of difficult feelings was. However long it might seem to take, and however unfair it might seem, it was my job to do it.

You can always be stronger.