Saying about Talent
Talent without skill is like a desert without an oasis. ~ Arabian Proverbs
A man gift will make a way for him. ~ Bible
Competition is the whetstone of talent. ~ Traditional Proverb
Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work. ~ French Proverbs
Great talents mature late. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Without perseverance talent is a barren bed. ~ Welsh Proverbs
Quotations about Talent
Talent is always queer-tempered. ~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. ~ Shirley Chisholm
Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character. ~ John Wooden
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Talents go by nature not by birth. ~ Frederick II
The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight. ~ Titus Maccius Plautus
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. ~ Henry Van Dyke
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. ~ Michael Jordan
However you make your living is where your talent lies. ~ Ernest Hemingway
We each after a while have to become reconciled to what it is that our talents and appetites lead us to. ~ Tobias Wolff
Concealed talent brings no reputation. ~ Desiderius Erasmus
I have had enough success for two lifetimes. My success is talent put together with hard work and luck. ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. ~ Erica Jong
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death. ~ Gerald Brenan
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money. ~ Author Unknown
Talent isn’t genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. ~ Louisa May Alcott
Talent is never static. It’s always growing or dying. ~ Stephen King
Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. ~ Robert Half
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. ~ W. H. Auden
It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united. ~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. ~ Goethe
I believe that every person is born with talent. ~ Maya Angelou
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life. ~ Goethe
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out. ~ Marguerite Gardiner
Talent works, genius creates. ~ Robert Schumann
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation. ~ Aristotle
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. ~ Henri-Frederic Amiel
Talent is only the starting point. ~ Irving Berlin
Hidden talent counts for nothing. ~ Nero
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. ~ Edward Degas
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will-power. ~ Honore de Balzac
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. ~ Pearl Bailey
It is a happy talent to know how to play. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours and use them well. ~ John Templeton
It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes. ~ Joseph Cook
Your talent is God’s gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God. ~ Leo Buscaglia
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. ~ Konstantin Stanislavisky
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing. ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail. ~ Aldous Huxley
Brevity is the sister of talent. ~ Anton Chekhov
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. ~ Louisa May Alcott
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. ~ Bernard Meltzer
This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it. ~ Charles De Montesquieu
I’d rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent. ~ John Wooden
Not he deserves praise that has talents, but he that uses them. ~ Ivan Panin
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. ~ Charles Horton Cooley
The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it. ~ Thomas Carlyle
It is a proof of great talents to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit. ~ Cicero
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. ~ Henri-Frederic Amiel
Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favored by exceptional circumstances. ~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. ~ Owen Meredith
Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius. ~ Austin O’Malley
Some bad qualities form great talents. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it. ~ Goethe
No one respects a talent that is concealed. ~ Desiderius Erasmus
I don’t have a lot of respect for talent; talent is genetic. It’s what you do with it that counts. ~ Martin Ritt
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you. ~ Malcolm Cowley
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Talent for talents’ 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. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have. ~ Woody Allen
God doesn’t give people talents that he doesn’t want people to use. ~ Iron Eagle
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. ~ Oscar Wilde
Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force. ~ Stephen King
There is no greater joy under the sun than the joy of giving: giving of one’s time, energy, talent, and money to help one’s fellow man. ~ William H. Taylor