Talent Quotes

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

If you can't excell with talent, triumph with effort.
- Dave Weinbaum

Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
- Oscar Wilde

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
- Oscar Wilde

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton