Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.
Michael Caine
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
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
Benjamin Franklin
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke
Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never
Lord Byron
The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson
It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown
Anatole France
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
Hermann Hesse
Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
Unknown
No man can discover his own talents.
Brendan Francis
God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools let them use their talents
William Shakespeare
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
Unknown