Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

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

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.

Good people always rise to your level of expectation.

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

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

It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

I teach people how to become limitless.

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

Whether I'm running, working, relating, parenting, learning - whatever I'm doing, I want to surround myself with people who push me.

I want to learn a lot.

Encouragement helps you to go one step more, become better.

To me, you can always get better.

We know that education is the key to unlocking human potential.

Change is hard. A lot of times, at the end of films, even if they're amazing, I look back, and I'm like, 'I don't think anyone changed,' and that's an important thing to see.

I wouldn't be educating children if I did not believe in human potential.

We get inspired and we learn new things.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

I know people can change-right down to my bones, through every cell, in every fiber of my body-I now that people can change. It is just a question of when and in what context.

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.

Be a people builder. Look for opportunities to encourage others to bring out the best in them.

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.