Your Reputation Begets You

When people know what they are looked upon as, they become the same.

- From a blog

A person may not be as good as you tell him he is, but he'll try harder thereafter.

- Anonymous

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

- Haim Ginott

Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe