1,160 Quotes About Talent

Anyone can fail at something they really don’t want. What really takes courage is going after something you want and then failing. There is more fulfillment in life knowing that you tried, rather than settled without a fight.

Now if only we stopped for a moment to think, it is quite obvious that there is no merit or design or logic in the way luck and talent are distributed in this world. For every man kissed by the sun there are millions in the shade, and there is no valid reason to rule out-or maintain-the possibility that the one is better than the other.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

Annoying people is something of a talent of mine. I gave it up for a while, but lately it's started to come back to me.

She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have done with so little labour as she ever would submit to... She was not much deceived as to her own skill either as an artist or a musician, but she was not unwilling to have others deceived, or sorry to know her reputation for accomplishment often higher than it deserved.

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

We are given talent but we choose to have character.

When admiring other people's gardens, don't forget to tend to your own flowers.

There are many good seeds in you. Therefore you must avoid every bad soil in the world.