Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
- Oscar Wilde
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
- Oscar Wilde
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
The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.
- Hector Berlioz
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you can't excell with talent, triumph with effort.
- Dave Weinbaum
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?.
- Benjamin Franklin
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
- H. Jackson Brown
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
- Marguerite Gardiner
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.
- Norma Shearer
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
- Stephen King
Genius is talent provided with ideals.
- William Somerset Maugham
A talented trumpeter who toots his own horn winds up playing to an empty theatre. A talented trumpeter who lets others recognize his talent winds up a legend.
- Lisa Edmondson
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
- Warren G. Bennis
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
- Erica Jong
Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that every person is born with talent.
- Maya Angelou
In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.
- Wilson Mizner
I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.
- Ingrid Bergman
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
- John Wooden
I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
- Kathe Kollwitz
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
- Erica Jong
It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
- Anatole France
The most exciting place to discover talent is in yourself.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never.
- Lord Byron
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Gustav Jung
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
- John Wooden
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
There is nothing new in art except talent.
- Anton Chekhov
I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.
- Albert Einstein
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
- Michael Jordan
I am no more humble than my talents require.
- Oscar Levant
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
- Robert Half
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
- Honore de Balzac
All of us do not have equal talents, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
- Malcolm Cowley
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
- John W. Gardner
