Persönliche Ziele - Personal Goals

FÜR UNSERE STUDIERENDE/TO OUR STUDENTS:

Alle Menschen guter Art empfinden bei zunehmender Bildung, daß sie auf der Welt eine doppelte Rolle zu spielen haben, eine wirkliche und eine ideelle, und in diesem Gefühl ist der Grund alles Edlen aufzusuchen.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Weimar, 1802)

Would not be cast into dejection by the thought that what is great is transient? If instead we find that the past was great, that should encourage us to produce some great work ourselves, which when it too falls to ruins, will spur our descendants to undertake some noble activity, as our forebears never failed to do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Italian journey, 1786-1788)

Ich hielt es für besser, etwas zu leisten, als nichts zu versuchen, weil man nicht alles leisten kann.
I considered it better to achieve something, rather than to attempt nothing, because one cannot achieve everything.
Alexander von Humboldt (an Friedrich Anton von Heinitz, Steben, 1794)

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. 

Theodore Roosevelt

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
Baron Pierre de Coubertin (Athens, (1896))