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Biography - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

German writer and statesman.
Born: 1749 - Died: 1832
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Never is done tomorrow what is not done today
And one should let no day slip by.
With resolution seize the possible straightway
By forelock and with quick, courageous trust;
Then holding fast you will not let it further fly
And you will labour on because you must.



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Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Was heute nicht geschieht, ist morgen nicht getan,
Und keinen Tag soll man verpassen.
Das Mögliche soll der Entschluß
Beherzt sogleich beim Schopfe fassen.


French
Ce qui ne se fait pas aujourd’hui ne sera pas fait demain, et l’on ne doit pas négliger un seul jour. La résolution doit soudain prendre hardiment le possible aux cheveux, et ne le laisse pas échapper, et poursuit son œuvre, parce qu’il le faut.




See also 

See also...



What's done cannot be undone.

You can't live at all, unless you can live fully now.

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

The world is generally so restless, that men scarcely ever think of the present time, and the instant they are now actually living, but of those in which they are to live. So that we are always in a disposition to live in future, but never to live now.

Later it will be too late. Our life is now.

You cannot hold the day back, but you can avoid wasting it.


The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Mastery of the moment is mastery over life.

While we wait for life, life passes.




Quotes for: day


Quotes

Quotes for: day


The sun is new each day.





Seize the day.





The best way to begin each day well is to think upon awakening whether we could not give at least one person pleasure on this day.





The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed.





A day without laughter is a day wasted.





As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.











Quotes for: decision


Quotes

Quotes about decision:


I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.





The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.





All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.





The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.





As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.





Only by means of decisions does man enter reality.











Quotes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also said...


In all things it is better to hope than to despair.





As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.





To do good needs no consideration.





We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.





People grow old indeed, but who grows wise?





The aim of living is Life itself.












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