Talent Quotes Here are some of the best 'Talent' quotations and sayings around.
As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us. They rise where they are least expected. They fail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to call them forth. Edmund Burke
Concealed talent brings no reputation. Desiderius Erasmus
Conciseness is the sister of talent. Anton Chekhov
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong
Genius does what it must, talent does what it can. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill. William Cowper
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 Jung
In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever. Willa Cather
It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier-pigeon. George Eliot
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. Andrew Carnegie
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
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry; it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary. William Hazlitt
Talent made a poor appearance. Until he married Perseverance. Arthur Guiterman
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Talents, angel bright, if wanting worth, are shining instruments in false ambition's hand, to render faults illustrious, and give infamy renown. Edward Young
The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. Hector Berlioz
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. Aldous Huxley
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. Sydney Smith