Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

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.

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.

Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level.

Man's nature is fundamentally good, or perhaps it is neither good nor evil. In any case, man is something to work on. We must hold fast to this fact - man is something to work on.

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

I've always been a good person, but I wanna be, like, the best person.

If anyone says you are bad, this mean he wants you to be good, and I am here to be good, and I want to be good. If they say I have done bad, then they should also give me a chance to change myself for good.

The people who help us grow toward true self offer unconditional love, neither judging us to be deficient nor trying to force us to change but accepting us exactly as we are. And yet this unconditional love does not lead us to rest on our laurels. Instead, it surrounds us with a charged force field that makes us want to grow from the inside out - a force field that is safe enough to take the risks and endure the failures that growth requires.

Do not say, ‘You are bad’; say only, ‘You are good’, but be better!

Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.

All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.

To have more than you've got, become more than you are.

If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.

Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.

The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow.

With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.

Accepting people as they are has the miraculous effect of helping them improve. Acceptance doesn't prohibit growth; rather, it fosters it.

There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.

We all have the potential to be better than we are.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

I don't think evil people or negative people are inherently interesting all the time. People who are good people getting better at being themselves - to me, that's something that's really interesting to watch.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

I've noticed a growth in Spike and definitely in myself. I feel like the seeds that he planted in me five years ago have ripened up to a place where I could even tackle this role in the way that I did.