Motivational Quotes

Talent

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

- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Best Quotes about Talent

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

Erasmus, Desiderius

A man gift will make a way for him.

Bible

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

Henry Van Dyke

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Angelou, Maya

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

Wooden, John

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

Erica Jong

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

Baltasar Gracian

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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Gide, Andre

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

Brenan, Gerald

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

Half, Robert

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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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Hidden talent counts for nothing.

Nero

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No one respects a talent that is concealed.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rourke, Mickey

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Talents go by nature not by birth.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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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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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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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 is only the starting point.

Berlin, Irving

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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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It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Proverb, French