Strengths Quotes

Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose.

~ Steve Maraboli

Dr. Watson's summary list of Sherlock Holmes's strengths and weaknesses:1. Knowledge of Literature: Nil.2. Knowledge of Philosophy: Nil.3. Knowledge of Astronomy: Nil.4. Knowledge of Politics: Feeble.5. Knowledge of Botany: Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening.6. Knowledge of Geology: Practical but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other. After walks has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by their colour and consistence in what part of London he had received them.7. Knowledge of Chemistry: Profound.8. Knowledge of Anatomy: Accurate but unsystematic.9. Knowledge of Sensational Literature: Immense. He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century.10. Plays the violin well.11. Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman.12. Has a good practical knowledge of British law.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

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

I never needed a Man. I needed a Viking. I needed someone who wasn't afraid of my strengths, or of my needs. I chose wrong... in the past. I thought I had to find someone who could put up with my hunger for life. But I was so damn wrong. I needed a Viking. I needed someone who would admire all the things about me that tepid men were intimidated by.

~ Alfa H

The sea is as desolate and barren as it is fertile and life-giving. It is cold and dismal, yet bold and spirited. Sometimes imperious and conquering, other times gentle and meek. But it is always mysterious. Those mysteries hold many secrets. One has but to listen and watch to discover them

~ Jocelyn Murray

If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.

~ Tom Rath

The pain that every struggle brings, is the beginning stage of your future strength.

~ Hafiz

My greatest strength is an unfocused mind. This is because while you are all thinking of one idea, I’m thinking of five different ideas. My greatest weakness however is an unfocused mind. This is because while I’m supposed to be thinking about one thing, I’m actually thinking of five other things.

~ Ben Mitchell

Fear is for the powerless. Fear is for the alone. But as you stand together now, you are neither of those. Together, you amplify each other’s strengths; you nullify each other’s weaknesses.

~ A.j. Darkholme

You have to shelf your excitement and be realistic about your internal and external strengths and weaknesses. (p.70)

~ Injap Sia

You can run a business any way you like, but you'll run it better if you build it around your strengths.

~ Duncan Bannatyne

When we build on our strengths and daily successes — instead of focusing on failures — we simply learn more.

~ Tom Rath

...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.

~ Susan Cain

Self-love is not the process of ignoring your flaws. Self-love is expanding your awareness to include your flaws and your strengths.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

10. Comparison is the root of all feelings of inferiority. The moment you begin examining other people’s strengths against your most obvious weaknesses, your self-esteem starts to crumble!

~ James C. Dobson

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

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.

~ Rob Liano

You know you have found your life mission when you say, “I dare you to try and take this away from me.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Every person is driven to self-deceive, simply to get out of the discomfort of the truth. The best relationships are with people who will not let you be blind. They reveal your hidden strengths and your concealed wounds.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

When you become self aware, you know your uniqueness, strengths, and limitations too. You become easy to work with others. You also avoid competing with others unhealthily.

~ Assegid Habtewold

As a leader, 1st, work on yourself- increase your self-awareness. There shouldn't be any other urgent agenda than this. Get enlightened! Know very well who you're including your strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots!

~ Assegid Habtewold

Authenticity is a continual process of building self-awareness, a journey through which we acknowledge both our strengths and our limitations, and come to identify a noble purpose.

~ Tom Hayes

In order to break your child’s negative cycle, you must first break your own cycle of negative perception. You must take on a strengths-based perspective. Look for the good, which in some cases may require you to get creative. Do this even when it’s hard. This sends a powerful message to children even when they are behaving poorly. You are sending the message that you believe in them, you see that there is more to them than their bad behavior, and you are painting a future picture of what they can become.

~ Daniel Bates

Humility is a peace that accepts one's strengths and limitations.

~ Tim Hiller

Being in touch with your strengths and weaknesses, as well as what motivates you, will help you be more successful in your job.

~ Joanie Connell

Be yourself and you’ll discover a world of surprises, mysteries and strengths.

~ Dee Dee Artner

I was beginning to see fewer of our weaknesses and more of our strengths; the events of the day were a reminder of how each of us had certain abilities that the rest did not. It was as if we were each a part of a whole body- one the hands, another the legs, and so on- dependent on one another and working best when we performed in unity. I felt inadequate then, unsure what part of this body I might be.

~ Patrick Carman

Whatever your passion is - even if you're great at it - it can't be the only thing you do... If you do, you'll be great at that one thing... and bad at everything else... Getting that balance is not easy...

~ Eric Berlin

The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings.

~ Spike Jonze

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

~ Marilyn Vos Savant

Fitness has always been one of my strengths. I can do all the long-distance runs. When I was at school and we entered the competitions, I used to do the 100m, 200m, and the 1500m as well, so it's never just been a pace thing.

~ Jamie Vardy