Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One must be something to be able to do something.

Topic: Character, Leadership
Location: Glacier National Park
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Choice Decision Freedom Life

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Intelligence Knowledge Thinking

Change

Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Leadership Learning

Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Accountability Listening Negotiation Persuasion Public Speaking Self

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

› Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Adversity Leadership

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

› Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Action Leadership

Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

› Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life Time

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Let nobody bribe you away from being yourself. — Napoleon Hill

Confidence Self-esteem

Gratitude

Love

It is not down in any map; true places never are. — Herman Melville

Perception Travel

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Imagination Perception

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. — Maya Angelou

Adversity Kindness Optimism

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? — Voltaire

Possibility

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. — Mohandas Gandhi

Forgiveness Strength

Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction. — Aesop

Confidence Self-esteem

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That which leaks cannot stay full. — African Proverb

Accountability Character Integrity

Using fear as a form of submission is the tale of a false leader. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Character Fear Freedom Leadership Liberty

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character Leadership Life Reputation Respect Time

I do the very best I know how—the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. — Abraham Lincoln

Character Leadership Purpose

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

› Mark Twain

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There’s neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. — William Shakespeare

Character Reputation

The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

› Theodore Roosevelt

Character Honesty Truth

Beware of men who flourish with hereditary honors. — Latin Proverb

Character

The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition. — Albert Camus

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Elegance is the only beauty that never fades. — Audrey Hepburn

Character

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. — Albert Einstein

Character Leadership

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Attitude Character Life

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. — William Shakespeare

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Character

What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather, indicates, his fate. — Henry David Thoreau

Character Destiny Fate Self-esteem Thinking

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself. — Michel de Montaigne

Character Self Self-esteem

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered. — Merikare

Character Love Reputation

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

› Will Rogers

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man. — Booker T. Washington

Character Choice Decision

Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach. — Arnold Glasow

Action Character Common Sense Communication Leadership Practice

One characteristic of a winner is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project. — Denis Waitley

Character Leadership Learning

The plant reveals what is in the seed. — Egyptian Proverb

Affirmation Character Reputation Thinking

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Character Leadership

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. — John Wooden

Character Reputation

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

› Lao-tzu

Leadership Team Teamwork

Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

› John F. Kennedy

Freedom Leadership Truth

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. — William Shakespeare

Courage Fear Leadership Time

The best way to move forward is to stop holding people back. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Action Leadership

Leaders celebrate the success of the team. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Appreciation Leadership Team

Every power is subject to another power. — African Proverb

Leadership Power

Teachers die, but books live on. — Dutch Proverb

Leadership Reputation Society

The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example. — Thomas Morell

Example Leadership

Knowing others is intelligence. Knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. — Tao Te Ching

Awareness Leadership Self

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

› Martin Luther King Jr.

Character Communication Conflict Leadership Learning Listening Negotiation Peace

The empty vessel makes the greatest sound. — William Shakespeare

Character Communication Leadership Reputation

Nothing so conclusively proves mans ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. — Thomas J. Watson

Example Leadership

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. — Henry David Thoreau

Fear Leadership

To admit that you were wrong is an act of courage. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Courage Leadership Mistakes

Heaven never helps the man who will not act. — Sophocles

Action Leadership

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

› Thomas Jefferson

Leadership Learning Truth

A fast way to demolish relationships, shatter credibility and disrespect yourself is by not following through when you say you are going to do something.

› Jeffrey Benjamin

Action Communication Leadership