100 Inspirational Quotes on Talent to Inspire & Enrich Your Life

Quotes on Talent

  • “Your talent is a blank check.” —Matshona Dhliwayo
  • “Great talent finds happiness in execution.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • “I believe that every person is born with talent.” —Maya Angelou
  • “Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.” —Woody Allen
  • “Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.” —Colin Powell
  • “A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.” —Sherlock Holmes
  • “Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Those who are blessed with the most talent don’t necessarily outperform everyone else. It’s the people with follow-through who excel.” —Mary Kay Ash
  • “Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.” —Ralph Emerson

Inspirational Quotes on Talent

  • “Talent is awakened.” —Wallace Stegner
  • “Talent is truth on display.” —Terry Rossio
  • “Talent without working hard is nothing.” —Anonymous
  • “Too much ego will kill your talent.” —Anonymous
  • “Don’t let your talent go to waste.” —Anonymous
  • “Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.” —John Wooden
  • “If you’ve got a talent, protect it.” —Jim Carrey
  • “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work.” —Tim Notke
  • “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” —Michael Jordan
  • “I believe that every person is born with talent.” —Maya Angelou
  • “Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.” —John C. Maxwell
  • “Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.” —Maya Angelou
  • “Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.” —Hilary Clinton
  • “With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.” —Thomas Foxwell Burton
  • “True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.” —John W. Gardner
  • “Embrace your talent and pursue it. You won’t believe what you can accomplish.” —Anonymous
  • “There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.” —Honore de Balzac
  • “Real talent shines through regardless of how many others there are around you.” —Paloma Faith
  • “Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy.” —Marco Pierre White
  • “We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.” —Bruce Lee
  • “You are a super duper amazing talented go-getter, let nothing stand in your way ever.” —Anonymous
  • “Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.” —John Wooden
  • “Why hide your talent in the closet of complacency when you have greatness within you?” —Robin Sharma
  • “A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.” —Sydney Smith
  • “Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible with talent is genius.” —Henri Frederic Amiel
  • “Talent is like a flower, you have to fully tend to it if you want something beautiful.” —Marinela Reka
  • “Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.” —Leo Buscaglia
  • “Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.” —Erica Jong
  • “The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • “Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” —Henry Van Dyke
  • “Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don’t be afraid to be the best.” —Paulo Coelho
  • “All of us are talented in our unique way. We just need to recognize our capacity and develop our talents to their full potential.” —Anonymous
  • “I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.” —Dean Koontz
  • “If you have talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly, like a millionaire intent on going broke.” —Brenda Francis

Quotes about Talent to Inspire & Enrich Your Life

  • “Everyone has talent at 25. The difficulty is to have it at 50.” —Edgar Degas
  • “The crowning blessing of life–to be born with a bias to some pursuit.” —S.G. Tallentyre
  • “Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.” —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • “Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)
  • “The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.” —Hector Berlioz
  • “Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner that works and brings it out.” —Marguerite Blessington
  • “Your talent is God’s gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.” —Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)
  • “If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it.” —James A. Garfield
  • “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.” —Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
  • “Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.” —Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  • “Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” —Henry Van Dyke
  • “Those who are blessed with the most talent don’t necessarily outperform everyone else. It’s the people with follow-through who excel.” —Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001)
  • “As tools become rusty, so does the mind; a garden uncared for soon becomes smothered in weeds; a talent neglected withers and dies.” —Ethel R. Page
  • “If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.” —William Feather
  • “Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.” —Russel H. Conwell (1843-1925)
  • “To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.” —Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)
  • “Talent for talent’s sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
  • “If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly, like a millionaire intent on going broke.” —Brenda Francis
  • “There are two kinds of talent; man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent, you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.” —Pearl Bailey (1918-1990)
  • “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
  • “A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius, which is apt to be perturbable and to wear itself out before fruition.” —Charles Horton Cooley
  • “Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.” —Maurice Maeterlinck
  • “Don’t show off every day, or you’ll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.” —Baltasar Gracian
  • “One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration–to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.” —William Matthews
  • “Great talents, such as honor, virtue, learning, and parts, are above the generality of the world, who neither possess them themselves, nor judge of them rightly in others; but all people are judges of the lesser talents, such as civility, affability, and an obliging, agreeable address and manner, because they feel the good effects of them, as making society easy and pleasing.” —Chesterfield

Talent Quotes and Sayings

  • “Talent without working hard is nothing.” —Cristiano Ronaldo
  • “No one respects a talent that is concealed.” —Desiderius Erasmus
  • “The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.” —Plautus
  • “Talent is never static. It’s always growing or dying.” —Stephen King
  • “However you make your living is where your talent lies.” —Ernest Hemingway
  • “Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.” —Maya Angelou
  • “Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.” —Austin O’Malley
  • “The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.” —André Gide
  • “Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “It is a happy talent to know how to play.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.” —Brenda Ueland
  • “Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”
  • “Not he deserves praise that has talents, but he that uses them.” —Ivan Panin
  • “Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.” —Edgar Degas
  • “Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.” —Marlon Brando
  • “Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.” —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • “In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.” —Wilson Mizner
  • “The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.” —Alex Turner
  • “Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • “There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.” —Aldous Huxley
  • “Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.” —Jules Renard
  • “Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.” —Stephen King
  • “Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.” —Constantin Stanislavski
  • “Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.” —Erica Jong
  • “If you ever find that you’re the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.” —Austin Kleon
  • “We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” —Marie Curie
  • “A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.” —Charles Cooley
  • “I’d rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.” —John Wooden
  • “Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.” —Richard Florida
  • “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” —Stephen King
  • Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated: rays powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.” —Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott
  • “This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.” —Montesquieu
  • “Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.”
  • “We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.”
  • “Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” —Stephen King
  • “It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one’s nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.” —W. H. Auden
  • “Talent for talent’s sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.” —Pope John Paul II
  • “There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.” —Pearl Bailey
  • “Talent isn’t genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won’t be a commonplace dauber, so I don’t intend to try anymore.” —Louisa May Alcott
  • “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
  • “It’s not the act of arrogance to draw, it’s humbling you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.” —LeRoy Neiman
  • “If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.”