Talents Quotes

Quotations list about talents, accomplishments and acumen citing Sylvester Stallone, Leo Buscaglia and Erica Jong

  • I am not the richest, smartest, or most talented person in the world, but I succeeded because i keep going and going and going.

    — Sylvester Stallone
    427
  • Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

    — Leo Buscaglia
    409
  • Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

    — Erica Jong
    301
  • Talent hits a target no one else can hit, genius hits a target no one else can see.

    — Arthur Schopenhauer
    244
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  • I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

    — Albert Einstein
    235
  • Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

    — Robert Half
    158
  • There may be people that have more talent than you,but theres no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.

    — Derek Jeter
    149
  • Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

    — Norman Ralph Augustine
    130
  • Achievement is talent plus preparation.

    — Malcolm Gladwell
    98
  • Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

    — Stephen King
    89
  • Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.

    — John Wooden
    81
  • Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

    — Michael Jordan
    67
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  • Talent is only the starting point.

    — Irving Berlin
    39
  • I believe that every person is born with talent.

    — Maya Angelou
    34
  • No one respects a talent that is concealed.

    — Desiderius Erasmus
    29
  • The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

    — Tony Robbins
    29
  • The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    28
  • I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent;

    curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.

    — Albert Einstein
    28
  • I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

    — Lucille Ball
    27
  • The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

    — Friedrich Nietzsche
    26
  • Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

    — Elizabeth George
    23
  • Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

    — Maya Angelou
    19
  • Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

    — Arthur Conan Doyle
    17
  • Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

    — Leon Trotsky
    17
  • There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.

    — Bryan White
    16
  • Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.

    — Roy L. Smith
    15
  • It's like a novelist writing far out things.

    If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.

    — Johnny Cash
    15
  • A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    13
  • The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

    — Plautus
    13
  • Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

    — Epicurus
    12
  • No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

    — George Bernard Shaw
    12
  • The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body.

    The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

    — Anthony Robbins
    11
  • The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.

    — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    11
  • Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.

    — Leo Buscaglia
    11
  • Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates.

    There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

    — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
    11
  • Concealed talent brings no reputation.

    — Desiderius Erasmus
    10
  • Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    10
  • Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

    — George Herbert
    10
  • If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

    — Abraham Lincoln
    10
  • This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.

    — Montesquieu
    10
  • Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

    — Bern Williams
    9
  • Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

    — Hermann Hesse
    9
  • With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty.

    But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

    — Arthur Schopenhauer
    9
  • I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

    — John Wooden
    9
  • Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

    — Marguerite Blessington
    8
  • Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.

    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
    8
  • What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

    — Edward George BulwerLytton
    8
  • To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    8
  • A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

    — Edmond de Goncourt
    7
  • Talents go by nature not by birth.

    — Frederick the Great
    7

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