Natural Talent Quotes

• Hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough.

  Alex Ferguson

  Hard Work, Overcoming, Doe

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• A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Strength, Happiness

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• First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.

  Hippocrates

  Education, Art, Science

  Hippocrates (2007). “The Law”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• Research shows that the happiest people are those who use their natural talents to the utmost.

  T. Harv Eker

  People, Use, Research

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• When I look at the kids training today... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most, and keep pulling themselves up and trying again.

  Michelle Kwan

  Meaningful, Perseverance, Fall

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  Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  "The Artist as Housewife" (1972)

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.20, Princeton University Press

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• Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.

  Billie Jean King

  Leadership, Sports, Dedication

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• Mastery is not a function of I.Q. or natural talent or wealthy parents who can send you to the best school, but rather the result of going through a learning process, fueled by the desire to grow and the persistence to push past any obstacles.

  Robert Greene

  School, Persistence, Past

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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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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Let each citizen contribute their natural talents or acquired skills to the greater benefit of all in the community.

  Michael Tellinger

  Skills, Community, Citizens

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• (Natural Talent + Opportunity) Hard Work = Success

  Michael Johnson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hard Work

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• Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.

  Gail Sheehy

  Suffering, Embarrassment, Periods

  Gail Sheehy (2013). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, p.349, Penguin

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• If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Zig Ziglar, Motivational Speaker, Dies at 86" by William Yardley, www.nytimes.com. November 28, 2012.

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• I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Born, Songwriting, Talent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The key choices you make-apart from the natural talent you already have-will set you apart from others who have talent alone.

  John C. Maxwell

  Keys, Choices, Choices You Make

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “Beyond Talent: Become Someone Who Gets Extraordinary Results”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Life, Motivational, Sports

  FaceBook post by Jack Nicklaus from Jan 14, 2014

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• The older I get, the more I feel.

  Sharon Olds

  Daughter, Getting Older, Age

  "Trauma Units" by Stephen Burt, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2002.

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• 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

  Work, Men, Two

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  Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Motivational, Wisdom, Perseverance

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Purpose, Want, Mankind

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• When we're able to put most of our energy into developing our natural talents, extraordinary room for growth exists

  Tom Rath

  Growth, Energy, Able

  "The Fallacy Behind the American Dream" by Tom Rath, Business Journal, February 8, 2007.

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