Quotes about Strengths

Instead of exclusively focusing on what's wrong and trying to fix it, you identify what's right and try to replicate it. Appreciative inquiry is playing to people's strengths. It's catching people doing things right. It's celebrating what you want to see more of. And it's bragging about people behind their backs.

You can't do everything, so focus on your strengths.

Submission is the art of compensating for your weakness by playing to each other's strengths.

There is a theory in organizational development called appreciative inquiry that I subscribe to as a leader and a parent. Instead of exclusively focusing on what's wrong and trying to fix it, you identify what's right and try to replicate it. Appreciative inquiry is playing to people's strengths. It's catching people doing things right. It's celebrating what you want to see more of. And it's bragging about people behind their backs.

Everyone can be a 10 at something, but our problem is that we often work so hard on trying to overcome our weakness that we never develop our strengths.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

People are most energized when they are using their strengths toward a bigger purpose

It's easy to impress people with our strengths, but real connections are forged through our shared weaknesses.

La humildad no es negar sus fortalezas. La humildad es ser sincero acerca de sus debilidades". —Rick Warren

The main reason we weren't making progress is when focusing on people's weaknesses. If you want to develop people, you must help them discover and build upon their strengths. That's where people have the most potential to grow.

What is confidence? I believe confidence is all about being positive concerning what you can do and not worrying over what you can't do. Confident people do not concentrate on their weaknesses; they develop and maximize their strengths.

But if we live for others, we will gradually discover that no one expects us to be "as gods." We will see that we are human, like everyone else, that we all have weaknesses and deficiencies, and that these limitations of ours play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us. We are not all weak in the same spots, and so we supplement and complete one another, each one making up in himself for the lack in another.