Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.
Baltasar Gracian
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Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
Benjamin Franklin
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If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
Brendan Francis
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Baltasar Gracian
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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero
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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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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 Mark Twain's Autobiography
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You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalynn Carter
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Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
Seneca
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915
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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
Sydney Smith
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren
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Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Horace Walpole The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: ability talent potential

But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.
1 Cor 7:7 Holy Bible
Categories: ability talent skill

We can't all do everything.
Virgil The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: ability talent skill

Great floods have flown
From simple sources.
William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: abundance wisdom gift talent

Ability is a poor man's wealth.
Matthew Wren The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: ability talent skill potential

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 a new power as a benefactor.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: talent action opportunity truth

Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.
Christine Collange Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: wisdom talent vision action

There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: luck talent effort skill

Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work talent life success

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subsconciousness--I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
Aaron Copland The Artist's Way
Categories: inspiration creativity vision talent

God does not ask your ability or your inability. He asks only your availability.
Mary Kay Ashe Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: ability skill talent willingness service god

A mockingbird has no voice of his own.
American proverb The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: gift talent skill uniqueness criticism

Skill to do comes of doing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: action practice skill ability talent

Success is about who you are, not what you have. Successful people work to discover their talents, to develop those talents, and then to use those talents to benefit others as well as themselves.
Tom Morris  The philosopher Tom Morris  by Anna Muoio,
Categories: success character talent skills work effort

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein The Quotable Einstein
Categories: talent skills ability gift curiosity creativity

Whenever we dream out loud, we're criticized for being foolish by people who really have no idea how special we are. As a result, we crush our dreams without giving them half a chance.
Barbara Sher Live the Life You Love
Categories: dreams criticism talent gifts critics put-downs

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: work talent ability fulfillment happiness meaning

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Winston Churchill Power Quotes
Categories: work effort ability gift talent value character

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
Samuel Johnson Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: discovery knowledge ability talent creativity skill

A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when one degenerates, the other is contaminated.
Seneca The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: ability character integrity honesty personality talent

Imagination is not the talent of some men, but is the health of every man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: imagination creativity dreams ideas talent wellness

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson Light from Many Lamps
Categories: practice effort work talent gift success

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness or ablities that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn Words for All Occasions
Categories: kindness love friendship sharing talent life

Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Robert Half The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: talent skill ability recognition leadership mentorship

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner that works and brings it out.
Lady Marguerite Blessington Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: talent ability skill practice work effort success

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan Words for All Occasions
Categories: wise talent ability character work effort action

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 Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: talent skill ability service giving sharing volunteerism

Latent abilities are like clay. It can be mud on shoes, brick in a building or a statue that will inspire all who see it. The clay is the same. The result is dependent on how it is used.
James F. Lincoln The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: ability talent skill work effort success failure

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel towards our distant goal.
Helen Keller Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: work ability skill talent desire goal vision

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too."
Margaret Thatcher Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: action goal growth ability talent achievement success perservere

Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: ability opportunity talent skill action desire motivation attitude

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: pride ability talent skill vision imagination self-confidence self-esteem

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Margaret Thatcher Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: success talent ability work effort goal vision mission

Ability is useless unless it's used.
Robert Half The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: ability skill talent effort work laziness achievement success

Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
Pythagorus The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: ability skill talent necessity need motivation persevere determination goal

Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: focus excellence success vision mission priorities work talent skill

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it -- every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
John D. Rockefeller III The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness passion hobbies work commitment dedication focus talent fulfillment

Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.
Goldwyn talent scout's assessment of Fred Astaire The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: talent ability capability judgement appearances perservere determination self-improvement growth

The man is born with a talent which he has meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: talent ability capacity work success happiness joy meaning fulfillment purpose

Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Donald A. Laird The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: ability talent mentorship leadership encouragement nurture blame criticism growth development

We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think should. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self if often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart.
Julie Cameron The Vein of Gold : A Journey to Your Creative Heart
Categories: happiness happy joy failure gift talent authenticity judgementalism expectations opinions heart emotion spirituality

Many of us grow up with the idea that mistakes are bad, linking our self-esteem with continued success. We become afraid of making mistakes. So in order to achieve success, we tend to steer clear of areas that may lie outside the apparent realm of our natural talent. In this perverse equation, the secret of success becomes avoiding failure, leaving much of our potential untapped.
In order to reach our full potential to learn, we must accept and then transform anxiety and fear, relentlessly seeking accurate information on our performance. What used to be perceived as criticism now becomes a gift for constructive growth.
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: mistakes self-esteem success confidence talent resistance failure potential learning performance criticism growth

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Robert Half Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: leadership mentorship mentoring talent skill developing coaching leading teaching teacher ability potential development

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power that resides in him is new in Nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: responsibility education envy creativity imitation self-acceptance work effort success power talent gift ability action

In order to arrive at paydirt, the valuable ore they are seeking, miners must sift through and discard a great deal of worthless material known as "the overburden." In personal terms, our individual overburden can obscure the gleam of a creative gift.
Buried under the negative (or simply ignorant or misleading) interpretations of others, the glistening veins of our talents, dreams, and aspirations must be actively sought in order to be found.
Julie Cameron The Vein of Gold : A Journey to Your Creative Heart
Categories: self-knowledge self-awareness talent growth change work effort skill gift opinions expectations negativity judgementalism dreams aspirations

There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.
Honore de Balzac Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: success achievement discipline talent ability will skill potential work effort action ministry service self-control practice character persistence persevere

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
William Feather The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: idea creativity ability vision leadership dream goal effectiveness laziness work effort outcome persistence determination skills talent success achievement

There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
William B. Given, Jr. The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work job vocation ability skill talent character loyalty sincerity integrity honesty enthusiasm business team leadership teamwork diligent effort actions attitude optimism cooperation relationships enthusiastic morale career success