Coffee Break - Strengths

“A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.”

-- William Arthur Ward

“At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.”

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

“Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses”

-- Marilyn vos Savant

“Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.”

-- Plato

“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

“If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.”

-- Barbara Bush

“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

“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

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

-- Charles Darwin

“Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses.”

-- Peter Drucker

“Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.”

-- Jack Welch

“There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”

-- Booker T Washington

“When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid”

-- Audre Lorde

“"Great management is not about changing people. Great managers take people as is and then focus on releasing their talents.”

-- Marcus Buckingham

“The best strategy for building a competitive organization is to help individuals become more of who they are.”

-- Marcus Buckingham