Victor Hugo 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.

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

Dreams grow if you grow.

We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.

We learn the magical lesson that making the most of what we have turns it into more.

I think she's going to be better and better if she works hard.

No matter what our age or what kind of problems we have, we can begin to make positive changes today.

I think a person can learn. Basically, I think anything is possible.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

You can bloom wherever you're planted, if you put enough effort into it.

In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I'm going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here's a chance to grow.

You have the potential to become anything to which you set your mind. You have a mind and a body and a spirit. With these three working together, you can walk the high road that leads to achievement and happiness. But this will require effort and sacrifice and faith.

A beautiful life does not just happen; it is built.

I am a strong believer in the ability of human beings to change for the better. I am a strong believer in trying to change what we are dissatisfied with.

Every experience I have benefits me. I am in the process of positive change.

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

Each of us has a huge capacity to learn and to achieve. Being ever alert makes the task of becoming all we are capable of becoming so much easier.

If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.

That man is idle who can do something better.

I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.

One of the major reasons why people are not doing well is because they keep trying to get through the day. A more worthy challenge is to try to get from the day.

Being constructively critical is good, as long as your purpose is to improve your methods for future endeavors. Lying in bed and replaying failures and telling yourself you're stupid is a tremendous disservice to your efforts and what you can offer the world.

I think most people can do a whole lot more if they just try.