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.
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 a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.Thomas Wolfe
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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.Henry Van Dyke
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Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.Patrick Süskind
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.Andre Gide
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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It is a happy talent to know how to play.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
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In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.Wilson Mizner
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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
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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
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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.Aldous Huxley
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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
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Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.Richard Florida
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The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.Plautus
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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I believe that every person is born with talent.Maya Angelou
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Not he deserves praise that has talents, but he that uses them.Ivan Panin
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It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.LeRoy Neiman