200 Exclusive Believe in Your Talent Quotes

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.

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

Embrace Your Unique Abilities

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

Unlock Your Potential

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

Trust in Your Creative Instincts

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 is too apt to give him credit for universality of genius, and to anticipate for him success in all that he undertakes. – CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Nurture Your Natural Talents

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

Emboldening Your Inner Strength

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

Have Faith in Your Creative Journey

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

Believe in Your Ability to Succeed

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

Harness the Power of Self-Belief

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

Let Your Talent Shine Bright

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

Celebrate Your Individuality

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

Overcoming Doubts and Self-Limitations

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

Embracing Failure as a Stepping Stone for Success

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

Finding Inspiration in Others’ Success Stories

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

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.