"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."

Goethe (1749–1832)

"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."

Goethe (1749–1832)

"Catch people doing something right."

Ken Blanchard (1939–)

"If you don't like it where you are, move. You are not a tree."

Jim Rohn (1930–2009)