Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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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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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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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.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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