Jean Paul Richter Quotes

Here find a collection of inspirational Jean Paul Richter quotes. This famous German Author lived from 1763 to 1825. We hope you enjoy his inspirational words and that they inspire you to be all that you can be.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Jean Paul Richter

Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.
Jean Paul Richter

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.
Jean Paul Richter

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
Jean Paul Richter

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
Jean Paul Richter

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
Jean Paul Richter

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
Jean Paul Richter

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
Jean Paul Richter

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
Jean Paul Richter

Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive.
Jean Paul Richter

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
Jean Paul Richter

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
Jean Paul Richter

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
Jean Paul Richter

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Jean Paul Richter

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
Jean Paul Richter

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
Jean Paul Richter

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
Jean Paul Richter

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
Jean Paul Richter



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