Strengths Assessment Quotes

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.

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.

Know your strengths and take advantage of them.

There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.

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

Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.

Team leaders have to connect with their team and themselves. If they don't know their team's strengths and weaknesses, they cannot hand off responsibilities to the team. And if they don't know their own strengths and weaknesses, they will not hand off responsibilities to the team.

[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.

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.

Whether you're 9 or 90, stop trying to fix the things you're bad at, and focus on the things you're good at.

I've known people who thought that reaching their potential would come from shoring up their weaknesses. But do you know what happens when you spend all your time working on your weaknesses and never developing your strengths? If you work really hard, you might claw your way all the way to mediocrity! But you'll never get beyond it.

Even your most talented employees have room for growth in some area, and you're doing your employee a disservice if the sum of your review is: 'You're great!' No matter how talented the employee, think of ways he could grow towards the position he might want to hold two, five, or 10 years down the line.

I think one of my strengths is kind of knowing people and getting a good read and a feel for what that person's strengths might be.

It’s only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we’re of any real use.

Winners evaluate themselves in a positive manner and look for their strengths as they work to overcome weaknesses.

I know what my strengths are and what theirs are and what the three of us do is play for the good of the team.

I've matured a lot as a pitcher. I understand what my strengths are. I've learned that I've got a great sinker, I get a lot of ground balls, and it's easy to get a ground-ball double play.

You have strengths within your team every single year and sometimes they stay the same, sometimes they change.

I need to reach out to people who work for small to mid-sized companies, and help them identify and apply their strengths at work.

It just means that your talents lie elsewhere, so take the opportunity to seek out what you are good at, and find a place where you can flourish. Once you do, you’re going to kill it.