Quotes about talents

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.

There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something Gifted people ARE that something.

Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.

Leaders are not worried about what they can’t do they know themselves very well and focus on what they can do. Think this way if you are willing to lead!

We don't choose our talents but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.

I have some cool talents. I'm really flexible and can do all sorts of twisted yoga positions. And I'm a big athlete and especially love soccer.

The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

Nature is the master of talents genius is the master of nature.

Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.

All right, so give me some idea of what you can do," says Haymitch.I can’t do anything," says Peeta, "unless you count baking bread."Sorry, I don’t. Katniss. I already know you’re handy with a knife,” says Haymitch.Not really. But I can hunt,” I say. “With a bow and arrow.”And you’re good?” asks Haymitch.I have to think about it. I’ve been putting food on the table for four years. That’s no small task. I’m not as good as my father was, but he’d had more practice. I’ve better aim than Gale, but I

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

Critasism is just a way of saying i'm jelous of your talents

Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.

To want a gift and not receive it,that is a life of torture. To have a gift and lose it--that is eternal hell.

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

You know." he said, resting the fiddle in his lap, "once you love something enough--enough to let it consume you completely--it becomes part of you, even when it's buried and quiet.

God is not looking at your abilities, talents, self-worth to be qualified to be his disciple

Fairness is one of the most significant traits in wisdom, the fairer you are, the wiser you become.

Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact... It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way.

It's funny the things dreams can do to you.

I want you to identify your strengths or talents and to find something about yourself that makes you unique and special and refer to that image each time you find yourself feeling insecure or unsure.

Many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of. Human resources are like natural resources; they’re often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they’re not just lying around on the surface.

Our talents come so easily to use that we acquire a false sense of security: Doesn't everyone see the world as I do? Doesn't everyone feel a sense of impatience to get this project started? Doesn't everyone want to avoid conflict and find the common ground? Can't everyone see the obstacles lying in wait if we proceed down this path? Our talents feel so natural to us that they seem to be common sense.

His unique skill had always been to absorb the talents and knowledge of others, use what he needed and discard the rest. He never allowed anyone to get to close. He kept the world at arm's length in order to look down on it.

Writing is my passion. It’s in my blood like a talent is. Like dancing, or singing, or drawing, I write. I can never stop writing. It helps me to express everything I’m afraid to talk about out loud when I need to say it the most. It’s my pacifier in a way...

Every human being has talents that are just waiting to be uncovered.

How can we explain such inclinations? They are forces within us that come from a deeper place than conscious words can express.They draw us to certain experiences and away from others.

God has given different gifts for different people. There is no basis for feeling inferior to another who has a different gift. Once it is realised that we shall be judged by the gift we have received, rather than the gift we have not, one is completely delivered from a false sense of inferiority.

We don't just come from the womb bearing our talents. They grow from all the things we learn.

It was as natural and obvious to me as breathing. So I assumed that everyone else was doing it too. When I realized that everyone else was not doing it -- that they couldn't do it even if they tried -- I told myself, 'I'm different from other people, so the life I live will have to be different from theirs.

There are many lights in the shadows and many shadows in the lights; lots of talents in the shades, lots of incompetents in the luminosities.

There are many young talents in Brazil. There is a lot of hope in Felipe Massa. It is very difficult to judge him in his first year, but by the end of the end we are going to have a better position how he does in Formula One.

Your personal brand is your promise of value to the world, and your commitment to deliver distinctively with every skill developed and talents you have been gifted with.

The world doesn't celebrate your similarity but your difference

In this value driven and ‘connection economy’, skills & talents alone are dime-a-dozen, you need to be able to add value to others and build great connections

All other businesses we do for living and for leaving good and great footprints are good! In fact, we must not let our gifts and talents be idle, but in all our endeavors we must not forget that there is one more noble business than any, and that is touching and saving lives for the Kingdom of God, in truth and in spirit, and proclaiming the coming of Jesus Christ with all due diligence, understanding, humility, courage and fortitude!

I am so much happier when I am doing the things that make me me, and that's living by my standards and doing the things I love, using my talents, however random they are, to share with other people. That's what makes me happy.

We will never outrun the nagging of original divinely inspired purpose.

Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them them than we are of breathing.

Begging would have been the best option if God had given talents to only a selected few. Fortunately, He gave us all our compactible gifts respectively, so it is an offence to be a chronic beggar.

It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

Whatever your passion is - even if you're great at it - it can't be the only thing you do... If you do, you'll be great at that one thing... and bad at everything else... Getting that balance is not easy...

That is what is marvelous about school, she realized: when you are in school, your talents are without number, and your promise is boundless. You ace a math test: you will one day work for NASA. The choir director asks you to sing a solo at the holiday concert: you are the next Mariah Carey. You score a goal, you win a poetry contest, you act in a play. And you are everything at once: actor, astronomer, gymnast, star. But at a certain point, you begin to feel your talents dropping away, like fea

We are all One. The beauty in one person is shared by all. The life path of one individual blesses everyone. The expression of Life neither originates within a single human, belongs to that person, nor remains within the personal boundary. Life is energy and, as such, it belongs to all, reaches all, and blesses all.

These is nothing divine about deprecating your gifts and talents or diminishing their worth in any way. Shining is sharing an abundance with us all.

You were born to be among the advisors and thinkers, the spiritual and moral leaders for your society. There is every reason for pride.

Let us not look at the talents we wish we had or pine away for the gifts that are not ours but instead do the best we can with what we have.

Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts.

Are we allowing individuals to develop their talents with our current teaching methods? Is there more or maybe less we should be doing?

...joy we find when we realize God's deep desire to partner with everyday, normal people using their talents to do good.

True success is accepting yourself for what you have to offer rather than for what you cannot do.

Every individual is unique with unique talents.

I should have guessed you were Jace's sister," he said. "You both have the same artistic talent."Clary paused, her foot on the lowest stair. She was taken aback. "Jace can draw?"Nah." When Alec smiled, his eyes lit like blue lamps and Clary could see what Magnus had found so captivating about him. "I was just kidding. He can't draw a straight line.

In my silence do I enhance my talents

There is a sacred duty, which you are divinely gifted to performed.

Recognize that there's something AMAZING about you. Everyone has something that comes very natural for them - natural gifts and talents. That gift/talent is that thing or things that comes easy for you, but hard for most. The greatness that is stored within was given to you, because it was meant to be used. Whether you've been running from it or haven't discovered it yet, it's there. It's your job to discover and master it. It wasn't given to you in vain, it's part of your purpose.

There comes a time when even the thing you love betrays you...you have to know when it's time to give it up, I suppose. Doesn't mean you love it any less, of course. Just means it's time to move on. When you can't agree with the decisions that bind you, then you have to take your talents elsewhere.

You are a sacred-being.

You know you have found your life mission when you say, “I dare you to try and take this away from me.

When you have the courage to follow your talents into the dark unknown places they lead, often God will send angels to light your way.

We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far moreconfidence in what God can do for every believing soul. He longs to haveyou reach after Him by faith. He longs to have you expect great thingsfrom Him. He longs to give you understanding in temporal as well as inspiritual matters. He can sharpen the intellect. He can give tact andskill. Put your talents into the work, ask God for wisdom, and it will begiven you.

The root of failure is self-pity. It leads to assumption that our needs are not being met now and probably never will be.

It is not your talents that make you great, but your decisions.

Perhaps you have been wondering about how you will win the tournaments of life. This is an important moment of your life. Just know where your goals are. Dress in the jersey of action and enter the game of vision! Work with your talents, skills, and tactics and with determination! Don’t commit any foul; don’t put yourself on an offside position. Be at the right place at the right time. Attack your failures and defend your goals; look up and watch the time because the whistle may blow at any time

What good were special talents when there was no one to share them with?

Life is a book. Keep writing your book.

Our finger print represents our unique identity and individuality.

Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practised in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.

When you unleash your divine talents to produce better articles, people will pay for them and that creates wealth for you. Spend time well!

Time and talents are the most expensive gifts God gave to us at no cost. However, they are the main things that are easily abused. To abuse something time and talents is to take them for granted and not appreciate their values.

If you hide the talents, you hide your brand. It’s simple.

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one?

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

Actually, I was prone to random acts of stupidity. I considered it to be one of my talents.

Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

To be prosperous you must discover your gifting’s, potentials and talents

Everyone has at least one talent. It's just that some talents are pointless.

Talent comes from education you had,languages you know and finally from skills you gain in your life.

You have a great potential. Explore your special skills.

You have great potential. Explore your special skills.

His best talent had yet to be determined, unless you counted unrealized potential.

All that ye potentially possess can…be manifested only as a result of your own volition.”Bahá’u’lláh

A Rainmaker creates value for the benefit of all through commitment.

You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential.

If you want to be prosperous begin to sow into your abilities, gifting’s, talents, self-development and self-education

Only when you cultivate your talents and gifts you prosper

You weren't born to be a spectator of others while they live life to the fullest. You too were born to make the world a better place, so put your talents into good use.

By the deficits we may know the talents, by the exceptions we may know the rules, by studying patholgoy we may construct a model of health.

It's not our talents that make us safe or dangerous, it's our choices.

Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented!