Giftedness Quotes

• Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

  W. C. Fields

  Inspirational, Motivational, Money

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• The longer I live the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company . . . a church . . . a home.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Attitude, Home, Past

  Bill Hybels, Life work journal, Charles R. Swindoll, Larry Burkett (2000). “The Life@work Book”, W Publishing Group

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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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• People's purpose in life is always connected to their giftedness.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Leadership, People

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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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• 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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• To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Pre: Americas Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine". Book by Tom Jordan, 1977.

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• Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake.

  Gerald Brooks

  Brake

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• 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.

  Andy Stanley

  Character, Leader, Scare

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.160, Multnomah

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• Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Character

  "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

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• Money can run out but talent is forever

  Lady Gaga

  Running, Forever, Talent

  FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Jan 12, 2014

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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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• Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fashion, Greatness, Men

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• Religious life has to become an expression of the gifts of the person. (You don't) simply throw away your personality, your giftedness and leave everything at the gate and go in and expect to find Jesus.

  Dolores Hart

  Religious, Jesus, Expression

  "From Elvis to Jesus: Mother Dolores Hart talks about her extraordinary journey from a blossoming career in Hollywood to something quite different". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Our abilities and giftedness does not end of this earth; we will continue to serve the Lord in agreement with our abilities on this earth.

  Paul P. Enns

  Agreement, Doe, Earth

  Paul P. Enns (2011). “Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About”, p.155, Moody Publishers

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• One thing that all of my children, biological and foster children, have taught me is the unbelievable diversity of talent and giftedness that all people have.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, People, Diversity

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• I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Mean, Light, Darkness

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.70, John Wiley & Sons

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• We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

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• I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.

  Scipio Africanus

  Attitude, Life Is, Some People Never Change

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• When it comes down to it, determination has a greater impact than giftedness.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Determination, Impact, Greater

  Kristin Armstrong (2011). “Mile Markers: The 26.2 Most Important Reasons Why Women Run”, p.81, Rodale

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• The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

  Bill Hybels, Life work journal, Charles R. Swindoll, Larry Burkett (2000). “The Life@work Book”, W Publishing Group

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• Competence is a big word. It is important. I almost want to nuance it with the idea of giftedness because sometimes you can teach a lot of skills on exposition but a person may not have the competence or the giftedness to do it. Therefore, it is very important to have that.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Skills, Ideas, Important

  "On Leadership and Calling". Interview with Major John Carter, rzim.org. April 2005.

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• The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent of how I react to it. And so it is with you. we are in charge of our attitudes.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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