Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Capable Quotations

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

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are 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 are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

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