Talent Quotes

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
Erma Bombeck

Life, God, Hope

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein

Special, Curious

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Positive, Knowledge, Gift

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
John Wooden

God, Humble, Grateful

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge

Education, Alone, Nothing

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
Marilyn Monroe

Human, Feelings, Loved

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Maya Angelou

Ignorance, Children, Endure

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Michael Jordan

Games, Teamwork, Wins

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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Else, Genius, Hit

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Leo Buscaglia

I believe that every person is born with talent.
Maya Angelou

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Put, Genius

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
John F. Kennedy

Knowledge, Alone, Human

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
Woody Allen

Happy, Liking, Instead

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
John F. Kennedy

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
Nelson Mandela

Strength, Endurance, Anybody

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.
Marilyn Monroe

Women, Since, Irritating

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
Marilyn Monroe

Career, Public, Born

I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else's talent.
Michael Jordan

Someone, Else, Talents

Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'
Marilyn Monroe

Someone, Give, Said

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Edgar Allan Poe

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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Honore de Balzac

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

Energy, Body, Results

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Nothing, Saying

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.
Will Smith

Above, Average, Talented

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
Johnny Depp

Nothing, Thought, Insecure

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King

Work, Successful, Hard

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
John Wooden

Character, Winning, Takes

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
Frank Sinatra

Yourself, Important, Pretty

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.
Will Smith

Practice, Ridiculous, Insane

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