Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Capable Quotations

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being

Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help him become what he is capable of being

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.