1,160 Quotes About Talent

We are liberated by the examples of the brave, the talented, and the successful if we allow ourselves that freedom.

A leader isn't born after 9 months' conception. When talents are discovered, skills are mastered & values are developed, a leader is born.

Before God put that dream into you, he did not ask for the approval of anybody... It means anyone who tells you "it's impossible" is not from God!

Those for whom things came easily usually made less of an effort, not more.

If more people had the courage to discover their potential, we might find that such talents are not so rare

To not use a talent to the best of your ability is to stifle the thing that makes you most special. It is like plucking the wings off a butterfly.

His whole being, his whole life was awakened in one instant, as if youth returned to him, as if the extinguished sparks of talent blazed up again. The blindfold suddenly fell from his eyes. God! to ruin the best years of his youth so mercilessly; to destroy, to extinguish the spark of fire that had perhaps flickered in his breast, that perhaps would have developed by now into greatness and beauty, that perhaps would also have elicited tears of amazement and gratitude!

Ningependa – maisha yangu yatakapokoma hapa duniani – kukumbukwa kama mtu aliyejitahidi kwa kadiri ya uwezo wake wote, kutumia kipaji alichopewa na Mungu.

Talent equaled desirability. Talent trumped good looks or a halfway decent personality. Talent was a personality.