"Everything in the world may be endured..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
More by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them”
“It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.”
“There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.”
More on Adversity
“It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say, 'Damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.' You're gonna be like, 'Damn, a rose grew from the concrete?'”
“I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.”
“Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?”
More on Prosperity
“Everything in life and business, you only earn more if you become more valuable. Because if you can do more for people than anybody else does, you can prosper. But you can't do that unless you're constantly educating yourself with the cutting edge. My whole life, even when I had no money, I would invest in education.”
“In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.”
“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a prosperity whose builders boasted their practicality has come the conviction that in the long run economic morality pays.”