Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBegin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLet us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe