All JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Quotes about “Failing”

“When ideas fail, words come in very handy.”
“For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.”
“Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.”
“There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.”
“The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.”
“It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me; but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it; and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.”
“For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.”

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