Gifted Quotes

• Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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  A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

  Larry Bird

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

  Chuck Grassley

  Children, Learning, School

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• The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Every day the word 'gift' is used to define talent, ability, and performance. Being gifted has an even deeper meaning, a meaning that isn't always measured in points per game or win/loss records - it's measured by heart, effort, and desire.

  Alan Cohen

  Success, Sports, Heart

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  Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

  Marie Curie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse, November 30, 1936.

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• You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.

  Max Lucado

  Positive, Success, Confidence

  Max Lucado (2009). “Let the Journey Begin: God's Roadmap for New Beginnings”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Success, God

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• We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Struggle, People, Use

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• We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

  Ethel Waters

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Inspirational, Worthy, One Thing

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• At the heart of good education are those gifted, hardworking, and memorable teachers whose inspiration kindles fires that never quite go out, whose remembered encouragement is sometimes the only hard ground we stand upon, and whose very selves are the stuff of the best lessons they ever teach us. Most of us, no matter how long ago it's been, can name our kindergarten teacher. Our first music teacher. Our junior high algebra teacher. Good teachers never die.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Education, Teacher, Encouragement

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• Being gifted needs courage.

  Georg Brandes

  Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

  Frank Wilczek

  Inspirational, Work, Mistake

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• Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.

  Barbara Sher

  Greatness, Love Is, Facts

  Barbara Sher (2013). “It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now: HOW TO CREATE YOUR SECOND LIFE AT ANY AGE”, p.354, Dell

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• I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it.

  Hazel Scott

  World, Responsible, Persons

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• One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Creativity, Power, Psychics

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• The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.

  Albert Einstein

  Psychics, Gifts Of The Spirit, Faithful Servants

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• If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

  Joy Harjo

  Sadness, Poetry, Answers

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• There will always be somebody more successful, more beautiful, more talented. You have to realize, you're not running their race. You're running your race.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Running

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• Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Success, Education, Knowledge

  The Valley of Fear ch. 1 (1915)

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• Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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  No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

  William Blake

  Love, Motivational, Cute

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.114, Pearson Education

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• The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching.

  Loren Cunningham

  God, Discovery, Over You

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• It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.

  Confucius

  Being Strong, Struggle, Character

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