Talent Quotes

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner that works and brings it out. -Marguerite Blessington


Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent. -Baltasar Gracian


Everyone has talent at 25. The difficulty is to have it at 50. -Edgar Degas


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. -Ralph Waldo Emerson



Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life. -Maurice Maeterlinck


If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters. -William Feather


If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it. -James A. Garfield


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. -Brenda Francis

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. -Henry Van Dyke

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration--to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left. -William Matthews


As tools become rusty, so does the mind; a garden uncared for soon becomes smothered in weeds; a talent neglected withers and dies. -Ethel R. Page



Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware. -Francois de la Rochefoucauld


Great talents, such as honor, virtue, learning, and parts, are above the generality of the world, who neither possess them themselves, nor judge of them rightly in others; but all people are judges of the lesser talents, such as civility, affability, and an obliging, agreeable address and manner, because they feel the good effects of them, as making society easy and pleasing. -Chesterfield

 

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