"If your treat an individual... 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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"If your treat an individual... 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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"You will go most safely in the middle."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"The world is independent of my will."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"A will finds a way."

Orison Swett Marden, American Writer

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"Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

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"Put three Zionists in a room and they will form four political parties."

Levi Eshkol, Israeli Statesman

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"I was given a White House - well, you will have to ask the White House that. But I asked to attend the White House briefing because I was, you know, because I wanted to report on the activities there."

Jeff Gannon, American Journalist

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Explore more quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."

Contentment

"What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours."

Responsibility

"The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool."

Work

"Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these."

Friendship

"A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness."

Philosophy

"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."

Growth

"All that is transitory is but a metaphor."

Philosophy

"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."

Books

"You can't, if you can't feel it, if it neverRises from the soul, and swaysThe heart of every single hearer,With deepest power, in simple ways.You'll sit forever, gluing things together,Cooking up a stew from other's scraps,Blowing on a miserable fire,Made from your heap of dying ash.Let apes and children praise your art,If their admiration's to your taste,But you'll never speak from heart to heart,Unless it rises up from your heart's space."

Art

"Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity."

Learning