Showing posts with label Success. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Success. Show all posts

Friday, December 12, 2008

10 Short Quotes about Talent

Talent 1. Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. ~ Henri-Frédéric Amie

2. Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

3. Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. ~ Henry Van Dyke

4. Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. ~ Leo Buscaglia

5. I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. ~ Albert Einstein

6. Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

7. Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors. ~ Wendell Phillip

8. Great talents have some admirers, but few friends ~ Unknown

9. Conciseness is the sister of talent. ~ Anton Checkhov

10. True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. ~ John W. Gardner

Friday, February 1, 2008

10 Short Quotes about Success

1. Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. ~ Charlie Finley

2. Engrave this Quote One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. ~ Arthur Ashe

3. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. ~ Vince Lombardi

4. Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

5. The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. ~ Gene Fowler

6. Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. ~ Sir Winston Churchill

7. Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view. ~ Anonymous

8. A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.~ David Brinkley

9. Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.~ Joyce Brothers

10. I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.~ Bill Cosby