Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Talent

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) Swiss Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Philosopher

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
Alfred Adler (1870–1937) Austrian Psychiatrist

If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it.
James A. Garfield (1831–81) American Head of State, Lawyer, Educator

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a “talent” my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–80) French Philosopher, Playwright, Novelist, Screenwriter, Political Activist

Talents go by nature not by birth.
Frederick II of Prussia (1712–86) Prussian Monarch

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) Russian Marxist Revolutionary

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 (1889–1981) American Publisher, Author

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Cyril Connolly (1903–74) British Literary Critic, Writer

A man gift will make a way for him.
The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you’ll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.
Stephen Covey (1932–2012) American Self-help Author

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn (1792–1870) French-Swiss Lyric Poet

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson (b.1952) American Activist, Author, Lecturer

The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–99) German Philosopher, Physicist

I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he believes he cannot compose music, he will come to nothing. He will not try hard enough. He will give up too soon when the elusive right melody takes too long to materialize.
Martin Seligman (b.1942) American Psychologist, Author

Talent is only the starting point.
Irving Berlin (1888–1989) American Songwriter, Composer

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.—Skilful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Epicurus (c.341–270 BCE) Greek Philosopher

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
John Wooden (1910–2010) American Sportsperson

I’d rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
John Wooden (1910–2010) American Sportsperson

If you have this enormous talent, it’s got you by the balls, it’s a demon. You can’t be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn’t that nice a guy.
Dustin Hoffman (b.1937) American Actor, Filmmaker

Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration?—a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
Jean Anouilh (1910–87) French Dramatist

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one’s powers and talents.
John W. Gardner (1912–2002) American Activist

If you will make the necessary effort you can develop any talent.
Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

Talents, angel bright, if wanting worth, are shining instruments in false ambition’s hand, to render faults illustrious, and give infamy renown.
Edward Young (1683–1765) English Poet

Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave.
Quintilian (c.35–c.100 CE) Roman Rhetorician, Literary Critic

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (1789–1849) Irish Novelist, Writer

Concealed talent brings no reputation.
Desiderius Erasmus (c.1469–1536) Dutch Humanist, Scholar

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist

No man can discover his own talents.
Brendan Behan (1923–64) Irish Poet, Novelist, Playwright

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