Quotes About Talent Vs Hard Work

#1. Hard work is much more important than talent

Carlo Rotella

#2. Virginity comes standard. A good head is earned.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#3. I'm a huge Springsteen fan, and yet if either he or Bob Dylan had to be erased from the world's hard drive, I would save Bob Dylan's work for sure - he's the greater talent, and by leaps and bounds and skyscrapers and rocket blasts. But Bob Dylan is an alien to his public.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#4. Hard work, determination, and talent are key for any successful venture. But sometimes you need that fourth ingredient: dumb luck. Luck can never replace hard work and talent, but sometimes it can win out over both.

Abby Rosmarin

#5. Talent is like a container. You can work as hard as you want, but the size will never change. It'll only hold so much water and no more.

Haruki Murakami

#6. Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.

Michael Jordan

#7. each of us should be allowed to rise as far as our talent and hard work can take us. The

Margot Lee Shetterly

#8. I hope someday what people can do with their lives depends on their talents and how hard they are willing to work, rather than on where they happen to be born.

Bill Gates

#9. It doesn't take talent to work hard.

Derek Jeter

#10. I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.

Oscar Pistorius

#11. Hard work beats talent and talent beats hard work

Kevin Durant

#12. Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

Patrick Suskind

#13. Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they're willing to work longer and harder than you are. Hustle is it.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#14. Success is a combination of effort, talent and hard work. There's got to be hard work and mental toughness. It's not just one thing that gets you there it's an accumulation of things

Brock Lesnar

#15. Hard work and talent are crucial to success, and intangible qualities like heart and clutch are generally real - but luck is just as important. Nobody gets to the top by accident, but nobody's on top without some pretty phenomenal accidents of fate.

Andrew Sharp

#16. Talent is the seed,
hard work is the stem,
perseverance is the branch,
and success is the fruit.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. I find writing for children much easier. I don't mean it's less demanding - you've got to have a talent for it and you've got to work very hard - but you don't have to pull your guts out and lay them on the line in quite the same way as when you're writing for adults.

Lynne Reid Banks

#18. People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

Monica Seles

#19. What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

Erykah Badu

#20. It's very hard to become an actor in film and television, you have to have such perseverance and you have to really believe that if you have any sort of talent at all, you will find work one day.

Renee O'Connor

#21. The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.

Dennis Lehane

#22. Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...

Albert Einstein

#23. Hard work and perseverance trumps talent most of the time. Talent plus hard work? Virtually unstoppable.

T.C. Harrelson

#24. Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.

David Bayles

#25. Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy

Robert Half

#26. To me, acting is all about hard work and talent. Once you get your first wrinkle, if you are a female actress, nobody will care about what you look like - it's all about what you can do.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido

#27. You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard ...

Morgan Matson

#28. Do not hide who you are. These are a nurturer's hands. Cooking is hard and sometimes painful work, but you do it to share your gift with us. Your cooking improves our lives. Don't ever be ashamed of who you are.

Amy E. Reichert

#29. God is not all that interested in your grammar. He is interested in the meaning of your grammar!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#30. I never take credit for anything, because it's mostly genetic to my way of thinking. Even the need to work hard with some genetic talent you're given - the need to go out and develop it, and push hard to bring it to people.

George Carlin

#31. I like playing a character that admires real musicianship, and real talent and hard work. I think that's a good message for everyone.

Elizabeth Gillies

#32. If something is at stake, the human mind gets ignited and the working capacity gets enhanced manifold. This is one of the techniques of building talent. It is important to work hard towards your chosen path - success is more a function of effort than anything else. A

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam