“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
“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.”
“Don't treat people as you think they are, treat them as you think they are capable of becoming.”
“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.”
“When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.”
“The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.”