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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Fame One Liner Worth
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Encouragement Inspirational Result Team
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Character Himself Transformation
And all must follow in my wake.
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Myself Wake Up
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Independent Life Trust Yourself
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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Ability Character People
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Game Ideas Start Win
There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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Creation Past Philosophy
What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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Beautiful Nature See Tolerance
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Action Enough Willing
In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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Desire Disappointment Enjoyment Happiness Heart Hope Ignorance World
Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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Believe Opinion People
To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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Exception Greatness Himself Love Oneself
A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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Heart Word
We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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Creation Happiness Himself Ideal Kind Ourselves Perfection Quality
The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Intelligence Laughter Man

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