"If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if i treat you as though you are all of what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that." Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I heard this today, and it make an odd sense to me. We always talk about accepting people for as they are. But what if we don't want to settle for that?

Take for example, you know someone in your life that doesn't live up to their full potential- as a friend, as a partner, in their job, in their talents, in any way. Do we keep our mouths shut, and take it just as accepting them for as they are? Is that okay? Or should we should treat them on the consideration that they can be more and expect them to act up to all they are capable of?