Friedrich Schiller
German poet and playwright, 1759-1805
23 quotes.
Quotes by Friedrich Schiller
- Day follows the murkiest night; and when the time comes, the latest fruits also ripen.
- Even weak men when united are powerful.
- Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.
- Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us.
- Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us. There does not live on earth the man, be his station what it may, that I despise myself compared with him. Man is made great or little by his own will.
- Forgiveness is the divinest of victories.
- Friends show me what I can do; foes teach me what I should do.
- Great souls endure in silence.
- Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
- He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little.
- He who considers too much will accomplish little.
- He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.
- In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow; the more a man expands, the larger his aims.
- Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
- Live with thy century, but be not its creature; produce for thy contemporaries, however, what they need, not what they applaud.
- Man is made great or little by his own will.
- Self Confidence has always been the parent of great actions.
- The brave man thinks of himself last of all.
- The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
- The vulgar estimate themselves by what they do; the noble by what they are.
- Time flies on restless pinions—constant never. Be constant—and thou chainest time forever.
- Will it, and set to work briskly.
- Wilt thou know thyself, see how others do; wilt thou understand others, look into thine own heart.