All JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Quotes about “Achievement”

“Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.”
“It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.”
“The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.”
“Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.”
“For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.”
“I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.”
“Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.”
“Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.”

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