Quotes About Strengths

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.

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.

The secret of successful people lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.

he never tired and was always patient and polite. These were his strengths. His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.

She needs an enemy so badly always that she has to keep one near and she's the nearest and the easiest to attack knowing the weaknesses and strengths and all the faults of our defenses.

The problem was that somewhere along the way I had bought into the myth that a good leader has to be good at everything. So I operated under the assumption that I had to upgrade my weaknesses into strengths. After all, who would follow a leader who wasn't well-rounded?

The first thing that sometimes keeps next generation leaders from playing to their strengths is that the idea of being a balanced or well-rounded leader looks good on paper and sounds compelling coming from behind a lectern, but in reality, it is an unworthy endeavor. Read the biographies of the achievers in any arena of life. You will find over and over that these were not "well-rounded" leaders. They were men and women of focus.

When a leader attempts to become well-rounded, he brings down the average of the organization's leadership quotient—which brings down the level of the leaders around him. Don't strive to be a well-rounded leader. Instead, discover your zone and stay there. Then delegate everything else.

According to Stephen Covey, delegating to others is perhaps the single most powerful high-leveraging activity there is.8 There are people who love what you hate. Strengthen your team by setting them free to do what only they can do. In that way you will ensure that your organization reflects your strengths as well as the strengths of those around you.

I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come clean And strengths that you still haven't seen

Whereas acting, you have to wait for someone else to give you the opportunity to do it, in comedy, you can just pick out your own strengths and be like, I'm just going to show the best bits to the world.

One of London's massive strengths is its sporting prowess, its great football teams.

Now that I look back, all the things that I was teased about, became game changers and my strengths. That's what we have to learn as mothers. We push our children so much to be perfect, but it's their imperfections that make them unique.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.

Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!

Likewise, individuals who can highlight the strengths of others are in a position to give gifts of immeasurable worth.

Knowing what types of people and problems give you difficulty is the first step toward avoiding psychological vulnerability.

Each business system has its strengths and weaknesses, yet each ultimately does the same thing. If operated properly, each system will provide a steady stream of income without much physical effort on the part of the owner once it's up and running.

What are your strengths? What makes you think you are qualified for this job? What makes you think you will succeed in this position? Why do you want this job?

Real leadership involves breaking through the limits of your mind so you can step into the highest strengths of your spirit.

La señora Greenaway me enseñó que todo ser humano nace con algún tipo de talento. Me explicó que a cada persona se le puede dar muy bien una cosa y que nacemos con puntos fuertes particulares, capacidades extraordinarias y virtudes muy dignas. Me dijo que si recordaba esto, trabajaba muy duro y era fiel a mí mismo, me pasarían cosas

Clearing up your weaknesses is one of the primary reasons we're here.

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.