"We must not hope to be mowers,..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.
More by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.”
“Giving is the business of the rich.”
“There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.”
More on Effort
“All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!”
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
“He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.”