Quotes About Strengths

#1. Playing people and position post-flop are definitely my strengths. When I get into a hand, I'm aggressive but I'm also paying attention to my opponent's betting patterns.

Daniel Negreanu

#2. In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.

William Pollard

#3. We plead not ourselves, but the promises of Jesus; not our strengths but His; our weaknesses yes, but His mercies. Our way of fighting is to hide behind Jesus who fights for us. Our hope is not the absence of our regret, or misery or doubt or lament, but the presence of Jesus.

Zack Eswine

#4. No, Bailey, you're not a coward, but you're constantly worried that you are. You're a champion
worrier. And a woman, I think, who gives herself very little credit for her strengths, and has very little
tolerance for her weaknesses. Self-judgmental.

Nora Roberts

#5. The time frame and how people treated each other was upsetting, but what's great about this story is that they really focus on the strengths of these people and the strengths of the culture, of who these Americans were. That, actually, is uplifting.

Aldis Hodge

#6. As long as you focus on your strengths and remain natural, then you come off natural [in your work].

T.I.

#7. We must conserve our strengths for the battles we can win.

David Henry Hwang

#8. The most terrible thing about marriage, I suppose, is that we know and understand each other's weaknesses and fears as much as we know our strengths and desires.

Nancy Thayer

#9. I wanted something that would address the strengths and weaknesses of humanity. I wanted a story that could move readers. My Honor Flight is that story.

Dan McCurrigan

#10. I just think you should concentrate more on what you are good at, and the strengths you already have, instead of worrying about changing yourself into something you're not.

Nicole Peeler

#11. Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

Elif Shafak

#12. Happiness does not come in large incomes or the most exotic home, it comes in small doses of a great self esteem which can be built upon the strengths of an individual.

Nicholas A. McGirr

#13. One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.

Joshua Waitzkin

#14. A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.

Richard M. Nixon

#15. Luca had many strengths and powers; as a rare blood born, conceived and born to a vampire mother and father, he was much stronger than those who'd been turned to the life.

Linda Howard

#16. Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem. The difference is this; instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths.

Alan Loy McGinnis

#17. You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That's when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That's what 'Time Is Love' is all about.

Josh Turner

#18. In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#19. I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.

Nina Bawden

#20. We have to use all of America's strengths to build a world with more partners and fewer adversaries, more shared responsibility and fewer conflicts, more good jobs and less poverty, more broadly based prosperity with less damage to our environment.

Hillary Clinton

#21. The hardest thing is for me to let the work go and let myself just live. Every actor is different; they each have their own strengths and weaknesses; trust and ease are mine.

Emory Cohen

#22. Every trader has strengths and weakness. Some are good holders of winners, but may hold their losers a little too long. Others may cut their winners a little short, but are quick to take their losses. As long as you stick to your own style, you get the good and bad in your own approach.

Michael Marcus

#23. Our Father knew exactly what He was doing when He created us. He made us enough alike to love each other, but enough different that we would need to unite our strengths and stewardships to create a whole.

Sheri L. Dew

#24. The 2008 Democratic presidential candidates would be wise to note that unwarranted negativism is dangerous and badly underestimates the strengths of the American people to adapt to and prosper with change.

Bernard L. Schwartz

#25. We all have strengths and weaknesses. The best advice is to embrace, focus on, and nurture our strengths. Unless, of course, those strengths include exploiting the weaknesses of others. Then I suggest discovering new ones.

Charles F. Glassman

#26. You told me to tell the truth, and this is exactly why I didn't want to. You want me to think I'm selfish."
"I want you to own your thoughts and actions, and not be afraid of them. Accepting your limitations is every bit as important as embracing your strengths.

Dawn Jayne

#27. Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.

Danielle LaPorte

#28. It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.

Ray Lee Hunt

#29. The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.

Leland Ryken

#30. The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.

Clare Boothe Luce

#31. Out of economic hardship can come change - we are suddenly cast onto our wits and our talents and our resources and our strengths, as we lose all the choices we once had.

Michael Leunig

#32. You'll do well, Percy. Just remember your strengths and beware your weaknesses.

Rick Riordan

#33. I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

Quentin Tarantino

#34. I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

Jason Mraz

#35. When I know and accept myself-all my strengths and all my limitations- I am immediately respectful of everyone else because I know they have something beautiful within them that I do not have.

Joan D. Chittister

#36. Passion is the great slayer of adversity. Focus on strengths and what you enjoy.

Charles Schwab

#37. These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

Meridel Le Sueur

#38. Indeed the presence of outstanding strengths presupposes that energy needed in other areas has been channeled away from them.

Allen Shawn

#39. The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.

Peter Drucker

#40. In some ways we indisputably are, but a major new ranking of livability in 132 countries puts the United States in a sobering 16th place. We underperform because our economic and military strengths don't translate into well-being for the average citizen.

Anonymous

#41. Good things happen to a team when a player takes the place where he adds the most value. Great things happen when all the players on the team take the role that maximizes their strengths - their talent, skill, and experience.

John C. Maxwell

#42. Who you're both the good & 'the bad', your strengths & 'weaknesses' make you unique. Embrace who you're and be comfortable in your own skin.

Assegid Habtewold

#43. I think that facing your own ugliness ... and trying to change yourself
turning your scars into strengths ... is very strong and beautiful.

Minari Endou

#44. My partners ... taught me that in order to create wealth, I needed to pair up with people whose strengths compensated for my weaknesses.

Kevin O'Leary

#45. One of the most critical strengths of a superior competitor in any discipline - whether we are speaking about sports, business negotiations, or even presidential debates - is the ability to dictate the tone of the battle.

Josh Waitzkin

#46. I want you to identify your strengths or talents and to find something about yourself that makes you unique and special and refer to that image each time you find yourself feeling insecure or unsure.

Carlos Wallace

#47. Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.

Marcus Buckingham

#48. He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#49. The strengths of America's international standing continue to be innovation, opportunities and vibrancy,

Simon Anholt

#50. I think that one of the strengths of Cop Shoot Cop lay in the different, and at times, clashing personalities, Ideally, I want to have both ways of working in my life.

Jim Coleman

#51. It was a proverb. Or half of one. Water will wear away stone, but it won't cook supper. Everything has its own strengths.

Ann Leckie

#52. You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.

Marcus Buckingham

#53. I'm convinced that the only way to get ahead in this world is to live and sell dangerously. You've got to live beyond your means. You've got to commit yourself to an act or vision that pulls you further than you want to go and forces you to use your hidden strengths.

John H. Johnson

#54. Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses ... on your powers, instead of your problems.

Paul J. Meyer

#55. The artful pitcher must take the inevitable peaks and valleys of pitching in stride and never give in to the batters or lose sight of his/her own strengths.

Tom Seaver

#56. You will always be criticized and teased and bullied for things that make you different, but usually those things will be what set you apart. The things that set you apart from the pack, the things that you once thought were your weaknesses will someday become your strengths.

Taylor Swift

#57. Health is not a diet plan, but a lifestyle. Understand your body, your strengths, and your limits and use this knowledge to make a change. Stop dieting, start living.

Manuel Villacorta

#58. Understanding your strengths and weaknesses is an unending process of self-discovery and creative evolution. Real success depends on being true to what fascinates you.

Paul O'Brien

#59. The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.

J. Michael Straczynski

#60. Success is about playing to your strengths.

Sophia Amoruso

#61. Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

Peter F. Drucker

#62. Understanding strengths and weaknesses is very essential in setting forth a clean administration and for sustainable and lasting solutions.

Narendra Modi

#63. It takes time to find your strengths, and it takes even more time to turn them into capabilities.

Joanna Barsh

#64. Satan doesn't mind you using your strengths, so long as you do it for personal benefits.

Rick Warren

#65. Our fulfillment in life and career meets with success when we give our best as per our unique talent, gifting, strengths while willing to team up with others in the areas of our limitations...

Assegid Habtewold

#66. Know your strengths and take advantage of them ...

Greg Norman

#67. Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

Peter F. Drucker

#68. One of those things that I like about TV is that if you get a group of people you like, you can work with these people for months at a time, and you can discover their strengths and weaknesses, and you can use those in the direction where you take the characters.

Denis Leary

#69. Creative individuals are more likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other one, too.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#70. The two men eyed each other. Assessing strengths. Looking for weaknesses. Measuring dicks once again

Jennifer Estep

#71. Team leaders have to connect with their team and themselves. If they don't know their team's strengths and weaknesses, they cannot hand off responsibilities to the team. And if they don't know their own strengths and weaknesses, they will not hand off responsibilities to the team.

John C. Maxwell

#72. He'd found himself intrigued by the way she'd weaved the lives of two very different people together, how she played off their strengths and weakness, how against all odds she brought them together and made it seem believable. Even if it was nothing more than make-believe. She was a talented writer.

M.K. Meredith

#73. The greatest strength you can have is to know your own strengths. You've got to figure out what you're good at and make the most of it.

Cristina Alger

#74. If you don't have world-class strengths where you need them, you won't be a world-class company.

Ben Horowitz

#75. My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable.

Mason Cooley

#76. Steve's sales pitch on the NeXT operating system was dazzling," according to Amelio. " He praised the virtues and strengths as though he were describing a performance of Oliver as Macbeth.

Walter Isaacson

#77. Everyone, regardless of ability or disability, has strengths and weaknesses. Know what yours are. Build on your strengths and find a way around your weaknesses.

Brad Cohen

#78. We must draw on the unique strengths of the Japanese economy, seek an open and cooperative approach with our international partners, and intelligently exploit the promise of new growth areas.

Yoshihiko Noda

#79. Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#80. A clear understanding of how much I don't know about medicine is one of my greatest strengths

Oscar London

#81. A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.

Peter Drucker

#82. I think Nevada is going to really be the first true test of whether or not these candidates have particular strengths in particular demographics.

Lucy Flores

#83. I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.

David Levithan

#84. The truth is, we usually only show our unhappiness to another woman. I suppose this is one of our problems. And yet it is also one of our strengths.

Elizabeth Berg

#85. I think one of my biggest strengths overall is staying in the moment.

Urijah Faber

#86. I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

Brene Brown

#87. I consider myself a good person. And I think people perceive me to be, 'Oh, she's nice,' but being a good person, knowing your strengths and working towards those strengths, and encouraging those around you to do the same, that's a good person.

Miranda Kerr

#88. Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong.

Simon Sinek

#89. Your personal brand isn't a couple of adjectives, and it shouldn't be a resume either. It should demonstrate your authentic talents and strengths.

Sean Pisini

#90. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.

Steven Pressfield

#91. Master your strengths. Outsource your weaknesses.

Ryan Kahn

#92. Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.

Hanna Rosin

#93. You are responsible for radicalizing your strengths.

Sara Genn

#94. Too often we compare our weaknesses with other people's strengths only to find ourselves coming up short." We compare our worst to someone else's best which sets us up to sound like failures. Essentially, we begin lying to ourselves.

Ruth Schwenk

#95. Castle Rock and New Line each have their strengths, but the great thing about New Line is that they are a real focused-market, niche-market player who understand franchises. They probably understand the franchise business in motion pictures better than anyone else out there.

Fred Seibert

#96. To encourage people to take responsibility for who they really are. And it is the only way to show respect for each person. Focusing on strengths is the storyline that explains all their efforts as managers.

Marcus Buckingham

#97. It was as if no one noticed my strengths or interests. I was a piece of cheese being shoved into a mold ... The last few years, I hadn't measured up in any way, and the more they pushed, molded, and silenced me, the more I wanted to be heard.

Mary E. Pearson

#98. When your people have determined that you understand their lies in their hearts and are dedicated to their functional wellbeing, they will compensate for your weaknesses and shore up your strengths.

Kevin Allen

#99. I am excited to be able to do something at this stage in my life that I feel is going to have some meaning. More helping people from a financial perspective understand their own strengths and lend a voice to things that I think are socially important.

Arlene Dickinson

#100. Know what your strengths are, but also keep in mind what your weaknesses are; always work on your weaknesses.

Cain Velasquez