Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “The deed is everything, the glory is naught.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “The deed is everything, the glory is naught.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Related Quotes “Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.” -Dale Carnegie “There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower “I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower “The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives – the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.” -Norman Cousins “The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.” -Epictetus “A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.” -C. S. Lewis “In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Personality is everything in art and poetry.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe