TALENTS

See also: Ability

Teach your students to use what talents they have; the woods would be silent if no bird sang except those that sing best.

Author unknown

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

Matthew Arnold

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

Anne Brontë

You must know that every man cannot be excellent, yet he may be useful. An iron key may unlock the door of a golden treasure; yea, iron can do things gold cannot do!

Thomas Brooks

Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Leo Buscaglia

Those talents which God has bestowed upon us are not our own goods but the free gifts of God; and any persons who become proud of them show their ungratefulness.

John Calvin

Talent is God given; be humble.

Fame is man-given; be grateful.

Conceit is self-given; be careful.

John Wooden

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no bird sang there except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke