Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it
Charles de Montesquieu
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
Aldous Huxley
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
John W. Gardner
Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
Thomas Wolfe
Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
Dylan Thomas
A best seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
Logan Pearsall Smith
Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent"; my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.
Brazzzle Jean-Paul Sartre
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
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Louisa May Alcott
In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork
Wilson Mizner