Quotes about Talent

Being a great writer is not the same as writing great.

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

To win once you must have talent, but to win again you must have character.

Talent will get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Talent is God-given: be humble. Fame is man-given: be thankful. Conceit is self-given: be careful.

Seek Players Who Will Make the Best Team Rather Than the Best Players.

And that, in my opinion, is the first goal of leadership—namely, getting the very best out of the people in your organization, whether they have talent to spare or are spare on talent.

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

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?

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.