More Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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.
If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
