“How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.”
“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
“Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.”
“A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form”
“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”
“Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.”
