Talent Quotes

“A career is born in public; talent in privacy.”

“In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.”

“I would not say that what I do is extraordinary. I would just say that I am able to do what I know best.”

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

“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings.”

“Talent without working hard is nothing.”

“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”

“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?”

“There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.”

"Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use."

Aretha Franklin

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

Henry van Dyke

"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.'"

Erma Bombeck

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see."

Arthur Schopenhauer

“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.”

Horace

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.”

Tim Notke

"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God."

Leo Buscaglia

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

"Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work."

"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage."

Sydney Smith

"The man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use, finds his greatest happiness in using it."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe