Talent Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old talent quotes, talent sayings, and talent proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

No one respects a talent that is concealed. Desiderius Erasmus
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
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. Charles Cooley
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. John Wooden
Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent. John Wooden
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
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 page, it writes three hundred. Jules Renard
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
Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads. Erica Jong
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. Edgar Degas
Talent without working hard is nothing. Cristiano Ronaldo
However you make your living is where your talent lies. Ernest Hemingway
If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room. Austin Kleon
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. Maya Angelou
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent. Marlon Brando
Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force. Stephen King
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
We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. Marie Curie
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
This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it. Montesquieu
Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius. Austin O'Malley
Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying. Stephen King
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
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. Leo Buscaglia
The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose. Alex Turner
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. Constantin Stanislavski