List Of Quotes By Clifton StrengthsFinder Talent Theme

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear.  Action breeds confidence and courage.  If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it.  Go out and get busy.” 
— Dale Carnegie

ADAPTABILITY

“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.”
— Abraham Lincoln, 16^th President of the United States

"If you wait until the last minute, it only takes a minute."
—Unknown

"You can't get lost if you don't care where you are going."
—Unknown

 

ANALYTICAL

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
— Albert Einstein, physicist

 

ARRANGER

“Tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.”
— Ludwig van Beethoven, classical music composer

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."
— Vincent Van Gogh

BELIEF

“The man who fights for his ideals is the man who is alive.”
— Miguel de Cervantes, writer

 

COMMAND

“There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.”
— Peter Drucker, organizational behavior theorist

 

COMMUNICATION

“Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.”
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author

 

COMPETITION

“When you win, nothing hurts.”
— Joe Namath, professional football quarterback

 

CONNECTEDNESS

“When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.”
— Vietnamese saying

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

— Albert Einstein

 

CONSISTENCY

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’”
— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., minister and civil rights leader

 

CONTEXT

“When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; writer, poet, and physician

 

DELIBERATIVE

"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."
— Albert Einstein

“Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.”
— Jean Baptiste Moliere, dramatist

 

DEVELOPER

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; poet, dramatist, novelist, and scientist

 

DISCIPLINE

“A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days . . . a mock-up of reason and order.”
— Annie Dillard, author

“You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.”

 

EMPATHY

“Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see; that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.”
— Alexander Pope, poet

 

FOCUS

“In the long run, [we] hit only what [we] aim at.”
— Henry David Thoreau; writer, philosopher, and naturalist

 

FUTURISTIC

“My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.”
— Charles Kettering, inventor

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
— Unknown

HARMONY

“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
— Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company

IDEATION

“I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me— shapes and ideas so near to me — so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down.”
— Georgia O’Keeffe, artist

 

INCLUDER

“If you are going to care about the fall of the sparrow, you can’t pick and choose who’s going to be the sparrow. It’s everybody.”
— Madeleine L’Engle, writer

 

INDIVIDUALIZATION

“Every man [. . .] is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity [. . .] ever be put together a second time.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher

 

INPUT

“I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); their names are WHAT and WHY and WHEN and HOW and WHERE and WHO.”
— Rudyard Kipling, author

 

INTELLECTION

“I think, therefore I am.”
— Rene Descartes, philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

“The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.”
— Marcus Aurelius; Roman Emperor, philosopher

LEARNER

“It is wrong to define education as preparation for life. Learning is life, a supreme experience of living, a climax of existence.”
— Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, theologian

 

MAXIMIZER

“Not trying to be everything is smart. Not working on everything, but rather emphasizing the development of selected powerful talents, is the route to excellence.”
— Donald O. Clifton, psychologist and business executive

“If better is possible, good is not enough.”
— Unknown

 

POSITIVITY

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
— Henri Matisse, artist

“When you can't find the sunshine, be the sunshine.”
— Unknown

RELATOR

“My friends are my estate.”
— Emily Dickinson, poet

“No better relation that a prudent and faithful friend.”
— Benjamin Franklin, writer, inventor

 

RESPONSIBILITY

“I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.”
— John D. Rockefeller, Jr., philanthropist

 

RESTORATIVE

"No business, no problems. No problems, no business. Problems are opportunities for solutions."
— George A. Naddaff, Boston Chicken UFood Grill

“Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure.”
— Karl A. Menninger, psychiatrist

 

SELF-ASSURANCE

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
— Henry David Thoreau; writer, philosopher, and naturalist

 

SIGNIFICANCE

“You are not here merely to prepare to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.”
— Woodrow Wilson, 28^th President of the United States

 

STRATEGIC

"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction."
— Albert Einstein

“I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through, then follow through.”
— Eddie Rickenbacker; aviator, combat pilot, and businessman

 

WOO

“He liked to like people; therefore people liked him.”
— Mark Twain; humorist, writer, and lecturer

“There are no strangers, just friends I haven't met yet.”
— Unknown