I embrace my femininity and my strength.

It is the struggle between the artist’s will and the medium that gives art its strength.

God has always given me the strength to say what is right.

I hate everything that comes from the United States. I hate it with all my strength.

Focus on your strengths, and don’t dwell on your weaknesses.

I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.

Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.

Follow these five decision steps when hiring someone: Understand the job, consider three to five people, study candidates performance records to find their strengths, talk to the candidates’ colleagues about them, and once hired, explain the assignment to the new employee.

Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer.

A manager’s task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant – and that applies fully as much to the manager’s boss as it applies to the manager’s subordinates.

Effective organizations put people in jobs in which they can do the most good. They place people – and allow people to place themselves – according to their strengths.

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.

We can’t make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.

The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.

Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values.

Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself – not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

Happiness is good for the body, but it is grief which develops the strengths of the mind.