potential Quotes

Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be.

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

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

An unused life is an early death.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

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.