(3653 quotes found)
“Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!”
Aaliyah
“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?”
Benjamin Franklin
“We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talent”
Mark Twain
“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
Henry Van Dyke
“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.
“I do not want to die...until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.”
Kathe Kollwitz
“Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.”
Robert Half
“It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown”
Anatole France
“Talent develops in quiet, Character in the torrent of the world”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.”
Madeleine L'Engle