Individual Strength Quotes

• It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.

  Chris Bradford

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

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  A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

  Christopher Reeve

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "Still Me". Book by Christopher Reeve, 1999.

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  The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

  Phil Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• By developing individual strengths, guarding against weaknesses, and appreciating the strengths of other types, life will be more amusing, more interesting, and more of a daily adventure than it could possibly be if everyone were alike.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Adventure, Appreciate, Interesting

  Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (1995). “Gifts differing: understanding personality type”, Davies-Black Publishing

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• People should be hired "as is" and their managers then help them to develop their individual strengths while completing tasks for which they have the greatest aptitude and in which they have the greatest interest.

  Marcus Buckingham

  People, Tasks, Aptitude

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In this type of cinema, whether working with actors or non-actors, as much as you do direct them, if you allow yourself to be directed by them, then the end result will be much more pleasing. The real and individual strengths of the actors is allowed to be expressed and is something that does affect the audience very deeply.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Real, Doe, Cinema

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• Managers are, and should be, totally responsible for recognizing individual strengths (both natural talents and skills), getting those strengths in proper alignment (i.e. in the right "seats"), and then leveraging them.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Natural Talent, Skills, Responsible

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

  Hannah Arendt

  Independence, Groups, Turns

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Only that which points the human spirit beyond its own limitations into what is universally human gives the individual strength superior to his own. Only in suprahuman demands which can hardly be fulfilled do human beings and peoples feel their true and sacred measure.

  Stefan Zweig

  Inspirational, Giving, Demand

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• Creativity cannot be really regulated, but it can be encouraged. The redevelopment or revitalization of a city is an art. It depends on the individual strengths of a place and the will of the leadership to bring about change. The goal is to establish a cultural infrastructure.

  Charles Landry

  Art, Creativity, Cities

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Government, Development, Absence

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• The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Church, Weakness, Inability

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors. It takes some strength of soul--and not just individual strength, but collective understanding--to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.

  Adrienne Rich

  Teacher, Mirrors, Psychics

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• As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.

  Alan Thicke

  Children, Father, Responsibility

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• For an economy to prosper, trust between the states must be established, and their individual strengths be appreciated.

  Narendra Modi

  Appreciated, Economy, States

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