Hidden Strengths Quotes

It's nearly every country's tactic to keep their greatest competitors a secret.

I don't know what you think of me. And you certainly would never picture us together. But probably peanut butter was just peanut butter for a long time, before someone ever thought of pairing it with jelly. And there was salt, but it started to taste better when there was pepper. And what's the point of butter without bread? (Why are all these examples of FOODS?!!?!?!?!?!?!) Anyway by myself I'm nothing special. But with you I could be.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Slumbering in every human being lies an infinity of possibilities, which one must not arouse in vain. For it is terrible when the whole man resonates with echoes and echoes, none becoming a real voice.

One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments.... It is always only danger which forces the most deeply hidden strengths and abilities of a human being to come forth.

I didn't know I was different athletically for a long time. I thought everyone did the sort of things that I can do.

I can never doubt anyone's capabilities. I feel everyone has a talent which takes time to come out.

There is value in everybody's gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.

Everyone's style is different, but I have a lot of things in my game the people don't know.

The characters get challenged. Through getting challenged, the character arrives at insights or discovers potentials that he or she didn't know they had.

It's always good to be underestimated.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

The characters that aren't what they seem to be or women who are stronger than people give them credit for or characters you underestimate, I always think are really interesting because there are so many possibilities with them.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others.

I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.

My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.

I'm convinced that the only way to get ahead in this world is to live and sell dangerously. You've got to live beyond your means. You've got to commit yourself to an act or vision that pulls you further than you want to go and forces you to use your hidden strengths.

I've been under-estimated myself quite often, and in some ways I quite enjoy it.

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.

What is it in man that for a long while lies unknown and unseen only one day to emerge and push him into a new land of the eye, a new region of the mind, a place he has never dreamed of? Maybe it's like the force in spores lying quietly under asphalt until the day they push a soft, bulbous mushroom head right through the pavement. There's nothing you can do to stop it.

No man can discover his own talents.

Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage.

You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them.