Motivational Quotes

Talent

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Talent

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

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cicero

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

Proverb, French

Hidden talent counts for nothing.

Nero

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

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

Henry Van Dyke

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

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Gide, Andre

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Talent is only the starting point.

Berlin, Irving

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

Benjamin Franklin

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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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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The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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A man gift will make a way for him.

Bible

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

Rourke, Mickey

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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

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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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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Renard, Jules

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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Erica Jong

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There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it.

Josh Lieb

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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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Talent is something, but tact is everything. It is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles.

Scargill, W. P.

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

Half, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

Brooks, Garth

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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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Talent works, genius creates.

Schumann, Robert

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Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

Seneca

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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.

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