Talent Quotes

Talents differ; all is well and wisely put;
If I cannot carry forests on my back,
Neither can you crack a nut.
- Emerson

Talent is developed in retirement : character is formed
in the rush of the world.
- Goethe

Men of talent are men for occasions.
- William Hazlitt

The real tragedy of life is not in being limited to one
talent, but in the failure to use the one talent.
- Edgar W. Work

 Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to
follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
- Erica Jong

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s
a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he
has talent and uses half of it, he has partly failed. If he
has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it,
he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction
and a triumph few men ever knew.
- Thomas Wolfe


 If you have great talents, industry will improve them. If
you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply
their deficiency.
- Sir Joshna Reynolds

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.
- Holmes

That on talent which is death to hide.
- Milton : Sonnet : On His Blindness