Talent Quotes

"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

"Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other."
-Seneca

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

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

"Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity."
-Dylan Thomas

"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

"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful."
-John Wooden

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

"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

"Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel."
-Mary Kay Ash

"Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt."
-Shirley Chisholm

"The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder."
-Frederick W. Faber

"There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power."
-Honore De Balzac

"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."
-Rosalynn Carter

"No man can discover his own talents."
-Brendan Francis

"An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent."
-Tom Lehrer

"Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them."
-Warren G. Bennis

"Perhaps no hall of comparable size anywhere has served so nobly as a spawning ground for young talent and, it must be said, as a graveyard for the hopes of the mediocre."
-Donal Henahan

"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

"Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light."
-Baltasar Gracian

"My bad habits aren't my title, my strengths and talents are my title."
-Layne Staley

"Talent will out, my dears."
-Freddie Mercury

"Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty."
-Nathaniel Emmons

"A talented trumpeter who toots his own horn winds up playing to an empty theatre. A talented trumpeter who lets others recognize his talent winds up a legend."
-Lisa Edmondson

"No matter what, ALWAYS BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. Any doubts must be put out of your mind. If you find yourself thinking something negative, figure out who it was who put that thought in your head... then acknowledge that it's not your thought, push it out of your mind, and say, "I'm awesome!""
-Christine Anderson

"The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck."
-Louis hector Berlioz

"The first thing they were told was how to hone their talent. Then they were told how to market their talent, discipline their talent and type their talent. And then they were told they might as well forget about talent."
-Esther B. Fein

"Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe