Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes

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

Although men are accused of not knowing their weakness, yet perhaps as few know their strength.

In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much stronger. In the beginning she wanted to believe she was strong but sometimes she faltered.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

I think I'm better than all the people who are trying to reform me.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.

A man is always better than he thinks.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.

Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.

What's happened in my career has been about knowing myself and realizing my flaws are my strengths, and to embrace them; to access what I'm really good at, and what I'm not so good at; and tune out the voices that get inside your head and make you think you can't do something.

You have to build yourself up a bit. You have to believe in yourself, because not that many other people will, you know?

You have to go out there and focus on yourself and not who you are up against.

I feel like I inspire more people than I think I do. I just need to remember that.

I've learned to ignore the negative people and just be a living example of confidence and self-love.

Having goals can be useful, but don't lose sight of how great you are and how much you can help yourself and others right now.

Learn yourself and love yourself.

You have to know your strengths and tell yourself you're the best.

'Correct' is a song and an exercise for me where I've been able to reclaim who I am and the good that I've done when in real life sometimes I struggle with that.

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

Your sensitivity is power. Don't let people transform your qualities into weaknesses.