Motivational Quotes

Talent

God doesn't give people talents that he doesn't want people to use.

- Eagle, Iron

Best Quotes about Talent

Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.

Buscaglia, Leo

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.

Hoffman, Dustin

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.

Renard, Jules

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

Erasmus, Desiderius

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Sophia Loren

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Gide, Andre

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

Brendan Francis

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?

Benjamin Franklin

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

Wooden, John

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Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.

Baltasar Gracian

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Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting -- intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.

Hagen, Uta

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Talent is only the starting point.

Berlin, Irving

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Talent works, genius creates.

Schumann, Robert

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Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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God doesn't give people talents that he doesn't want people to use.

Eagle, Iron

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He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Cicero

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Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.

Proverb, French

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I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.

Rourke, Mickey

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I believe that every person is born with talent.

Angelou, Maya

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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.

Huxley, Aldous

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Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Meltzer, Bernard

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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

25.

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

Seneca

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Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Baltasar Gracian

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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.

Sydney Smith

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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

Mark Twain

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Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke

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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.

Auden, W. H.

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Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.

Brenan, Gerald

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The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him.

Miller, Henry

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Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Half, Robert

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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me..

Bombeck, Erma

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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Hidden talent counts for nothing.

Nero

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I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.

Ritt, Martin

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This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

Connolly, Cyril

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No one respects a talent that is concealed.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.

Sarton, May

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Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave.

Quinton, John

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A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

Cooley, Charles Horton