Great Talent Quotes

• A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Strength, Happiness

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• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

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• There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Willpower, Talent

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• No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

  Warren Buffett

  Smart, Investing Money, Effort

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.71, Carolina Academic Press

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• The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Teaching, Use

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• Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Beautiful, God

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• I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

  John Wooden

  Life, Sportsmanship, Experience

  John Wooden (2011). “Wooden's Complete Guide to Leadership (EBOOK BUNDLE)”, p.12, McGraw-Hill Professional

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• We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

  Mark Twain

  Musical, Fifteen, Talent

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition”, p.251, Univ of California Press

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• Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

  Stephen King

  Motivational, Success, Encouragement

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

  Plautus

  Lying, Sight, Talent

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• The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

  Hector Berlioz

  Good Luck, Talent, Enough

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• I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Trying, Want, Talent

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Women Collection: Little Women, Little Men, Eight Cousins and More”, p.394, Xist Publishing

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• …because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Energy, Genius, Want

  Louisa May Alcott, Daniel Shealy (2013). “Little Women: An Annotated Edition”, p.502, Harvard University Press

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• Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspiring, Confidence, Fear

  "A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a 'Course in Miracles'". Book by Marianne Williamson, 1992.

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• Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

  Warren Buffett

  Baby, Successful, Investing Money

  "10 billionaires give their best advice on getting - and staying - rich" by Autumn Rose, www.businessinsider.com. April 20, 2016.

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• Art depends on luck and talent.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Art, Luck, Talent

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• People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

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• Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

  Walter Scott

  Littles, Madness, Talent

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• The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

  Samuel George Morton

  Art, Strong, Littles

  Samuel George Morton, George Combe (1839). “Crania Americana; Or, A Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America: To which is Prefixed an Essay on the Varieties of the Human Species”, p.88, Philadelphia : J. Dobson ; London : Simpkin, Marshall

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• Get your texts from God - your thoughts, your words, from God... It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God. A word spoken by you when your conscience is clear, and your heart full of God's Spirit, is worth ten thousand words spoken in unbelief and sin.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Jesus, Heart, Hands

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• Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

  Wendell Phillips

  Men, Two, Political

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• It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Christian, Men, Needs

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Jesus, Hands, Weapons

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1852). “Memoir and remains of the rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, minister of St. Peter's church, Dundee”, p.243

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• It is not so much great talents that God blesses, as great likeness to Christ.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Talent, Christ, God Bless

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• Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.

  Samuel Foote

  Talent, States, Microcosm

  Samuel Foote (1799). “The works of Samuel Foote, esq. ...”, p.243

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