Recognizing Strengths Quotes

It's easy to see the negative, but every person has something great about them. Develop a habit of looking for the good.

If you see what is small as it sees itself, and accept what is weak for what strength it has, and use what is dim for the light it gives then all will go well. This is called Acting Naturally.

It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.

Never let a person's weakness get in the way of their strength.

Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

I'm sure you get the best out of people if you look for the best in them. People don't need to be told when they've done something wrong - they know it without having to be told.

As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also.

I think you've got to be honest with yourself at what you're good at. That's the hardest thing to do.

I made as many mistakes as anybody else. I sound as if I'm an egomaniac, and I suppose in some ways I'm filled with hubris because I know how good I am at certain things. But other things, I can't do at all. I can't draw.

Part of growing up is learning your strengths and weaknesses. What better way to figure out that hand-eye coordination ain't your thing than by getting drilled in the mouth by a red, rubber ball? You only gotta get beaned in the face so many times before you figure out, 'I better hit the books because this is not working out.

You really have to learn what you're good at and what you're not good at, what you can handle and what you can't handle. We have a tendency to forget it.

Sometimes we forget about our own advantages because we focus on what we don't have. Just because you have to work a little harder at something that seems easier to others doesn't mean you're without your own talents.

Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.