A Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Active Affairs Alone Circumspection Far Go Know Limit Men Prudent Strength Use World

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German - Novelist
August 28, 1749 - March 22, 1832

It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.

Richard Whately

Any man will be able, after sufficient practice, to accomplish remarkable feats of strength, but he may go only so far and no farther. There is a limit to human physical strength that no one can exceed.

Gichin Funakoshi

Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.

Douglas Feith

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

There's a limit to what each guy physically can do, but there's no limit on how far you go.

Rudy Ruettiger

There's an old African proverb that says "If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." We have to go far - quickly. And that means we have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we're facing, and why we have to work to solve it.

Al Gore

The Foreign Affairs Committee is first in line to call for the U.K. to take a more active and independent role in world affairs, and to have the resources to do so. But a large part of that role involves working with allies and leveraging the range of our assets in co-ordination.

Crispin Blunt

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

Mary Kay Ash

To the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man of ideas appears out of his reason. They alone gave reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The inspiration of a noble cause involving human interests wide and far, enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before, and which they were not capable of alone. The consciousness of belonging, vitally, to something beyond individuality; of being part of a personality that reaches we know not where, in space and time, greatens the heart to the limit of the souls ideal, and builds out the supreme character.

Joshua Chamberlain

Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.

Blaise Pascal

In Africa we having a saying, 'If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.' ...Before I go back home, I want you to consider us, Katie. Ponder what it would be like if we went together. Not alone and fast but together and far.

Robin Jones Gunn

There is a limit to everything; whomsoever I act with, I'm rumored to be having affairs with them. I just can't take it anymore. How many affairs can an actress have?

Shamna Kasim

Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the tracks of others or emulate the prowess of their models. So a prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding.