Great Talent Quotes:

To recognize great talent, we must encourage dreamers.

- Benjamin West

topic: Dreamer, Talent, Great Talent

Great talent admits shortcomings.

- Philip Seymour Hoffman

topic: Talent, Great Talent, Shortcomings

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Happiness, Great Talent, Executing

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

- Anatole France

source: Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Journey To Success, Inspiration And Motivation

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Inspirational, Willpower, Talent, Great Talent, Will Power

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Effort, Matter, Talent, Great Talent, Successful Investing

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Happiness, Teaching, Use, Great Talent, Wasted Talent

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

- John Wooden

topic: Beautiful, Motivation, Grateful, Inspirational Coach, Inspirational Coaching

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

- John Wooden

topic: Life, Sportsmanship, Experience, Great Talent

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

- Mark Twain

topic: Musical, Fifteen, Talent, Great Talent

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

topic: Motivational, Success, Encouragement, Individual Success, Individual Talent

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

- Plautus

topic: Lying, Sight, Talent, Great Talent

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

- Hector Berlioz

topic: Good Luck, Luck, Talent, Great Talent, Hector

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

topic: Trying, Want, Great Talent, Talent And Genius

…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

- Louisa May Alcott

source: Louisa May Alcott, Daniel Shealy (2013). “Little Women: An Annotated Edition”, p.502, Harvard University Press

topic: Energy, Genius, Want, Great Talent, Little Women

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Confidence, Children, Insecure, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Baby, Successful, Discipline, Great Talent, Investing Your Time

Art depends on luck and talent.

- Francis Ford Coppola

topic: Art, Luck, Talent, Great Talent, Film Directors

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: Motivational, Success, Attitude, Great Talent, Robber Baron

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

- Walter Scott

topic: Littles, Madness, Talent, Great Talent

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

- Samuel George Morton

source: Samuel George Morton, George Combe (1839). “Crania Americana; Or, A Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America: To which is Prefixed an Essay on the Varieties of the Human Species”, p.88, Philadelphia : J. Dobson ; London : Simpkin, Marshall

topic: Strong, Art, Littles, Great Talent

Get your texts from God - your thoughts, your words, from God... It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God. A word spoken by you when your conscience is clear, and your heart full of God's Spirit, is worth ten thousand words spoken in unbelief and sin.

- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

topic: Jesus, Heart, Hands, Great Talent

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

- Wendell Phillips

topic: Men, Two, Political, Great Talent

It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.

- Edward McKendree Bounds

source: Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

topic: Christian, Men, Needs, Great Talent

It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.

- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

topic: Jesus, Hands, Weapons, Great Talent

It is not so much great talents that God blesses, as great likeness to Christ.

- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

topic: Talent, Christ, God Bless, Great Talent

Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.

- Samuel Foote

source: Samuel Foote (1799). “The works of Samuel Foote, esq. ...”, p.243

topic: Talent, States, Microcosm, Great Talent

Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.

- Richard Branson

topic: Leadership, Play, People, Great Talent, Company Culture

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Elements, Madness, Talent, Great Talent

Dappled sunlight and looked at the silver vapor swirling inside. "Mist gathered at first light on the first day of the new moon on the Isle of Avalon," he said. "Yep. Good for one hour of great talent," said Annie. Jack smiled, remembering their hour as horse trainers and their hour as stage magicians. "I wonder what we'll be great at this time," he said. "Maybe great nurses?" said Annie. "We'll see," said Jack. He put the tiny bottle in his backpack; then he picked up the piece of paper from the floor. On the paper he had written the two secrets of greatness they'd

- Mary Pope Osborne

topic: Horse, Moon, Greatness, Annie, Great Talent

You can have average talent, but when God breathes on your life, you will go further than people that have great talent. Don't talk yourself out of it.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Average, People, Talent, Great Talent

I want to tell you how proud I am to be the President of a nation that - in which there's a lot of Philippine-Americans. They love America and they love their heritage. And I reminded the President that I am reminded of the great talent of the - of our Philippine-Americans when I eat dinner at the White House.

- George W. Bush

source: George W. Bush during a Meeting with President Arroyo of the Philippines, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 24, 2008.

topic: White, America, House, Great Talent

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

- Gustav Mahler

topic: Brother, Men, Musician, Great Talent

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.153, Humanix Books

topic: Country, Peace, Mean, Great Talent, Rendering

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Inspirational, Honesty, Hypocrite, Hypocrit, Great Talent

Think what a contribution selfish people of great talent could have made if their commitments had been made to Jesus Christ instead of to themselves! We will do better in every aspect of our lives if we commit to a God in whose life we see miracles, power over disease and death...

- Vaughn J Featherstone

topic: Jesus, Selfish, Commitment, Great Talent, Disease And Death

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

- Joshua Reynolds

source: 'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 2 (11 December 1769)

topic: Talent, Ability, Deficiency, Great Talent

Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.

- Seth Godin

topic: Encouraging, Persistence, Ideas, Great Talent, Big Ideas

You have to believe you're great. You have to have an air about you. My success wasn't because I was a great talent, but because I wanted it more than anybody else. Every minute I step on that field, I want to prove I'm the best player in the league.

- Brett Favre

topic: Believe, Wrestling, Player, Great Talent

If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.

- Eddie Murphy

topic: Country, Opportunity, Watches, Great Talent, Aries Man

I am very proud of my musical growth and contributions to the band in the last four years. I have nothing but positive thoughts and feelings towards John, Mike, James, and John. Jordan Rudess is a friend of mine and a great talent. I wish all of them the very best!

- Derek Sherinian

topic: Years, Feelings, Musical, Positive Thoughts, Great Talent

Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.

- Laozi

source: Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

topic: Teaching, Talent, Notes, Great Talent, Tao Te Ching Leadership

A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Strong, Men, Sight, Polyphemus, Great Talent

Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved.

- Zubin Mehta

topic: Rocks, Talent, Rock Music, Great Talent

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

- Kevin Spacey

topic: Home, Memorable, Theatre, Great Talent

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

- Shiloh Fernandez

source: "Next Factor: Shiloh Fernandez". Interview with Robert Desalvo, www.mtv.com. March 9, 2011.

topic: Writing, Thinking, Talent, Great Talent

Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

source: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.87, Ravenio Books

topic: Hands, Style, Execution, Great Talent, Mannerisms

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire ...

- Elizabeth Montagu

topic: Wish, Admiration, Talent, Great Talent

We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We are caught within our own skins, our own sensibilities; we never know if our technique has been adequate to the vision.

- Madeleine L'Engle

topic: Artist, Differences, Vision, Great Talent

There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder. Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.

- Ahmet Ertegun

source: Source: www.slate.com

topic: People, Eric, West, Great Talent

Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

topic: Few Friends, Talent, Admirer, Great Talent