Believe in your talent quotes: Everybody has their own unique talent. Whether you sing, dance, play the piano, use a computer… the list goes on and on. We are all born with a unique talent, it just has to be dug out.
One of the best ways to help you discover your own talent is to remind yourself that you have it. This blog will show you a series of quotes about believing in your talent to help inspire you towards self-discovery.
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Believe In Your Talent Quotes
Talent is a burden you can’t throw off. – MIN KYM
Brevity is the sister of talent. – ANTON CHEKHOV
Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work. – AMOL SARVA
Talent is the infinite capacity for imitating genius. – EVAN ESAR
The motivator for talent is a good audience. – MARGO SWADLEY
Talent is never static. It’s always growing or dying. – STEPHEN KING
Talent is a tenant in a house owned by genius. – AUSTIN O’MALLEY
Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter. – STEPHEN KING
Talent equals success minus effort. – TOMAS CHAMORRO-PREMUZIC
If you’re young and talented, it’s like you have wings. – HARUKI MURAKAMI
Not that he deserves praise that has talents, but that he uses them. – IVAN PANIN
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of mediocre talent. – LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH
It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent. – JOSEPH ROUX
Talent is often mistaken for genius, especially by the man who has it. – EVAN ESAR
Sure, home-field is an advantage — but so is having a lot of talent. – DAN MARINO
The possession of superior talent creates more wishes than it gratifies. – ELIZA COOK
Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it. – MAYA ANGELOU
Men of genius are the worst possible models for men of talent. – MURRAY D. EDWARDS
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. – EMILE ZOLA
Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage. – THEODOR W. ADORNO
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. – ROBERT HALF
For some, talent is a renewable resource; for others, it’s subject to depletion. – ANN HORNADAY
Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force. – STEPHEN KING
It is a great talent for a ruler to use the talents of men as though he possessed them. – DUKE OF TSIN
Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads. – ERICA JONG
The idea that we are limited by genetic factors–innate talent–is a pernicious myth. – DAVID Z. HAMBRICK
Talent is that which is in a man’s power; genius is that in whose power a man is. – JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Mediocre ability, well developed and properly planted, will produce a larger tree of success than will extraordinary ability, scattered or uncared for. – NATHANIEL CLARK FOWLER
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous. – ROBERT BENCHLEY, Believe in Your Talent Quotes
Trust Your Talent Quotes
The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight. – PLAUTUS
I believe that every person is born with talent. – MAYA ANGELOU
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents. – HARPER LEE
While you have a talent, and time to use it, be diligent. – JOHN THORNTON
However you make your living is where your talent lies.- ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character. – RALPH WALDO EMERSON
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all virtues are of no avail. – ALDOUS HUXLEY
The best way to get more talents is to improve the talents we have. – EDWARD BICKERSTETH
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. – CALVIN COOLIDGE
Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What’s a sundial in the shade? – BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Talent hits the target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. – ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. – SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. – KONSTANTIN STANISLAVSKY
Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore is to steel-making. – RICHARD FLORIDA
If talent without persistence is a tragedy … persistence without talent is a comedy. And, boy, is it a painful one? – JAMES PONIEWOZIK
It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent–almost like a carrier pigeon. – GEORGE ELIOT
When a man has displayed talent on some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give him credit for universality of genius, and to anticipate for him success in all that he undertakes. – CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Retaining the best talent is how a company maintains resilience in a world defined by variation and unpredictability. – GRETCHEN DIGBY
We don’t choose our talents; but we needn’t hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want. – LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. – JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
When your camels find no more nourishment, move to a more fertile spot; and when your talents are not appreciated, seek another country. – IBN MUNIR
It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. – JONATHAN SWIFT
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. – DORIS LESSING
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: Believe in Your Talent Quotes
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
I’m a firm believer that passion trumps talent. The philosophy of that is that talent is a commodity, and there are a lot of talented people in the world. But it is passion that propels you forward. – TANYA DUA
Genius, without talent, is a wild, and beautiful, and erratic meteor; talent, without genius, is a steady light, which lasts long, but never throws a flood of radiance upon earth or sky. – ANONYMOUS
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. – ERIC HOFFER
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent. – SMILEY BLANTON: Believe in Your Talent Quotes
Talent Quotes
Talent is a tenant in a house owned by genius. – AUSTIN O’MALLEY
Talent is never static. It’s always growing or dying. – STEPHEN KING
It is a happy talent to know how to play. – RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling. – ANDRE GIDE
The crowning blessing of life–to be born with a bias to some pursuit. – S.G. TALLENTYRE
Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. – LEO BUSCAGLIA
The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. – HECTOR BERLIOZ
The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose. – ALEX TURNER
We each after a while have to reconcile to what it is that our talents and appetites lead us to. – TOBIAS WOLFF
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
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
Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything. – PATRICK SÜSKIND
This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it. – MONTESQUIEU
Use whatever talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. – HENRY VAN DYKE, Believe in Your Talent Quotes
Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore is to steel-making. – RICHARD FLORIDA: Believe in Your Talent Quotes
Use whatever talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. – HENRY VAN DYKE, Believe in Your Talent Quotes
If you have a talent, use it in any 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
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
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
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: Believe in Your Talent Quotes
Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware. -FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Believe in Your Talent Quotes
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: Believe in Your Talent Quotes
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 is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. – CONSTANTIN STANISLAVSKI
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 the talent and learns somehow to use all of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won the satisfaction and triumph few men will ever know. – THOMAS WOLFE
Talent must be viewed as the most indispensable ingredient for success, but success also depends on how that talent is managed. – ALLAN SCHWEYER
There was never an unused talent rolled up in a handkerchief yet, but when it was taken out and put into the scales, it was lighter than when it was committed to the keeping of the earth. – ALEXANDER MACLAREN
Because many talents are first identified and nurtured in childhood, it can be difficult to determine whether talent is innate, can be acquired through extensive practice or can only be acquired in the presence of the developing brain. – FRANCESCA HAPPE & UTA FRITH, Believe in Your Talent Quotes
Talent is the intersection of skills, knowledge, and behavior, and everyone has it. – CASEY WARDYNSKI, DAVID S. LYLE & MICHAEL J. COLARUSSO
Talent only gives an imperfect image–the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of Genius remain unruffled. – ROBERT ELDRIDGE ARIS WILLMOTT
If you have this enormous talent, it’s got you with the ball, it’s a demon. You can’t be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn’t that nice a guy. – DUSTIN HOFFMAN
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
Pride not thyself upon thy talents: they were given thee at thy birth. Hast thou done aught before thy birth to deserve them? – IVAN PANIN
As for great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us, they rise where they are least expected; they fail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to call them forth. – EDMUND BURKE
It is probable that a greater proportion of talent is destroyed, or rendered valueless, by riches than by poverty; and the rapid mutation of society, I think, demonstrates this to be the fact. – FRANCIS WAYLAND
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. – ERIC HOFFER
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. – STEPHEN KING
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
Put yourself in the position of an impressionable young child hearing the word ‘talent’ being bandied around during coverage of the Olympic games in Rio. We hear that Jessica Ennis-Hill is a “talented” athlete; that Adam Peaty’s “talent” was spotted early; and what a “talented” bunch of cyclists and rowers Great Britain has. The presumption is that talent is something you’re born with. It’s simple: you’re talented or you’re not. – BEN BURGESS
Talent Sayings and Quotes
Talent without working hard is nothing. – CHRISTIANO RONALDO
No one respects a talent that is concealed. – DESIDERIUS ERASMUS
Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. – RALPH WALDO EMERSON
However you make your living is where your talent lies. – ERNEST HEMINGWAY
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
Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. – MAYA ANGELOU
Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force. – STEPHEN KING
Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express. – BRENDA UELAND
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on pages, it writes three hundred. – JULES RENARD
Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads. – ERICA JONG
I’d rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent. – JOHN WOODEN
If you ever find that you’re the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room. – AUSTIN KLEON
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. – JOHN WOODEN
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. – JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Believe in Your Talent Quotes
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. – CHARLES COOLEY: Believe in Your Talent Quotes
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. – LOU HOLTZ
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
Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated: rays powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point. – ROBERT ELDRIDGE ARIS WILLMOTT
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
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 any more. – LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of hard work, effort, and perseverance toward their goals. – ZIG ZIGLAR
Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated: rays powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point. – ROBERT ELDRIDGE ARIS WILLMOTT
Whatever your interest, there are ways to put your talent online. Uploading your work does not guarantee you fame and fortune, but people will slowly begin to recognize your talents. – FANBOLT
We must despise no sort of talent: they all have their separate duties and uses, all the happiness of man for their object; they all improve, exalt, and gladden life. – SYDNEY SMITH
Well-matured and well-disciplined talent is always sure of a market, provided it exerts itself; but it must not cower at home and expect to be sought after. – WASHINGTON IRVING
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
I also tell young artists, what’s precious is not your songs, what’s precious is your talent and your love of the process, so just go back and write another and another and another. – ALAN MENKEN
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
Talents are distributed by nature without the slightest regard, or respect, to genealogies, pedigrees, ancestry, and all that kind of thing. – FREDERICK THE GREAT
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
Point of View
Speak your mind and don’t be afraid to share what you think. To some people it can be scary but in the end your opinion is just as special as anyone else’s. Don’t be afraid to show that you have what it takes to succeed and if you fail you fail. Learn from your mistakes and carry on.
