List Of Quotes By Clifton StrengthsFinder Talent Theme

Here’s a list of quotes to help you communicate what puts you at your best at work. Quotes are a nice way to show the mottos you live by without feeling like you're bragging about yourself. These are listed under StrengthsFinder talent themes from the CliftonStrengths assessment, yet be sure to skim them all. You might find one under a different category that represents you perfectly.

You could use these quotes in your LinkedIn Summary to help colleagues and customers know what it's like to work with you. Or you could do a team activity where you share a quote that reflects your life motto.

ACHIEVER

“I never see what has been done; I see only what remains to be done.”
— Marie Curie, Chemist

"Let's make a list and stick to it."
—Unknown

 

ACTIVATOR
"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

"Music is in the piano only when it is played."
— Jack Gilbert

“Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist and poet

"If I waited until I had all my ducks in a row, I’d never get across the street. Sometimes you’ve just got to gather up what you’ve got and make a run for it."
—Judge  Lynn Toler

 

ADAPTABILITY

“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.”
— Abraham Lincoln, 16th 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
"We're so focused on our company's mission that we could pee through a straw."
— Richard Tait, Director of the Centre for Journalism Studies at Cardiff University

“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

"Make it so, Number 1"
— Jean-Luc Picard, Captain of the Enterprise, Star Trek, the Next Generation

 

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
"I am a part of all that I have met.”
— Unknown

“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
"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat.”
— Unknown

“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
"No one cares how much you know until they first know how much you care about them.”
— Unknown

“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
"When you practice empathy, it creates more love to go around. It is not a finite resource. When used, it creates more."
— Brent Brown (paraphrased)
"It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
— John Andrew Holmes

“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
“Be like a postage stamp: stick to one thing until you get there.” 
—Josh Billings

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

 

FUTURISTIC
"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” 
— Dan Millman via “Way of The Peaceful Warrior”
"All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers.  They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose."
— Brian Tracy

“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

"Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay."
— Sallust, Roman historian
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

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
— Maya Angelou

 

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

"To all that come to this happy place, welcom."
— Walt Disney

 

INDIVIDUALIZATION
"You don’t have to live your life the way other people expect you to."
— Chris Guillebeau
"Be yourself. Everyone else is taken."
— Unknown

“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
"Formal education will make you a living.  Self education will make you a fortune."
— Jim Rohn, American Entrepreneur, Author, and Motivational Speaker

“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
"A fool sees an enemy.  A wise man sees a lesson to be learned."
— Mahatma Gandhi

“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
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” 
— Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), First lady of the United States

“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
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
— George Eliot (1819-1880), Writer
"One can't believe impossible things.  I daresay you haven't had much practice, said the Queen.”
— Lewis Carroll (1898 - 1993),  Author, Mathematician, Logician, Anglican Deacon, and Photographer

“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, 28th President of the United States

 

STRATEGIC
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” 
— Henry Thoreau

"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

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