Motivational Quotes

Talent

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

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Talent

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

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

Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning like the sun, rested and refreshed, ready to draw from the same storehouse -- always open, always full, always abundant -- new treasures that it will heap up on those of the day before; such people are unaware that, as in the case of all mortal things, talent has its increase and decrease, and that independently of the career it takes, like everything that breathes... it undergoes all the accidents of health, of sickness, and of the dispositions of the soul -- its gaiety or its sadness. As with our perishable flesh. talent is obliged constantly to keep guard over itself, to combat, and to keep perpetually on the alert amid the obstacles that witness the exercise of its singular power.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Talent is only the starting point.

Berlin, Irving

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brooks, Garth

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Gide, Andre

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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

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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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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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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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Hidden talent counts for nothing.

Nero

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Brenan, Gerald

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No one respects a talent that is concealed.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

Seneca

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

Rourke, Mickey

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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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I believe that every person is born with talent.

Angelou, Maya

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A man gift will make a way for him.

Bible

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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cicero

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

Eagle, Iron

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