Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

If we treat people as who they can become, they will be inspired to rise to the level of our expectations.

Only those who are built up can build others up, amen?

He tries to show each person how much they are capable of achieving.

It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.

How can we help a child change from undependable to dependable, from a mediocre student to a capable student, from someone who won't amount to very much to someone who will count for something. The answer is at once both simple and complicated: We treat a child as if he already is what we would like him to become.

That's what I like to do: bring out the best in people.

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.

If we're going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a person as if he were where he could be and should be, and he will become what he could be and should be.

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

My goal is not necessarily to be an inspiration. I think, if anything, I want to continue to be inspired and to continue to grow as a person.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Surround yourself with people and things that inspire you. Learn everything you can.

We can all remember a time when someone encouraged us and made a difference in our lives. It may be just a moment, but this encouragement could last a lifetime.

To bring out the best in someone, you really have to push them.

In a sense, Minnie makes me better than I was before because there's a lot to live up to.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

A word of Encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

We need to make sure our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell them honestly when they have it in them to work harder.

Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.

Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be.

Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts.