Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
Steve Martin
The man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use, finds his greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
Aldous Huxley
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.
Leo Buscaglia
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
Isaac Newton
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
Nelson Mandela
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan
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
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Aurelius
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein
