Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Accept Quotations

Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

I am what I am, so take me as I am!.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

If you accept people for what they are, they will become worse. Treat them like they should be, and they will become better.

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that