Honor Quote by Alexander Chee

“But in art class, all you had to do was try. I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“I'm not talented or gifted. I'm a committed, meticulous workaholic. The only reason I succeed is because I refuse to fail.”

— Jessie Snow

“Talent was merely the underpinnings. To be an artist, you also had to have nerve. And to maintain nerve, you had to have drive.”

— Tom Robbins

“Sometimes your talent can steer you away from your passion.”

— Fawn Weaver

“Talent demands that you respect and honor it, and I was still kicking myself around the block seventeen different ways.  Talent without the self-confidence…

— Debora Geary

“Talent is something rare and beautiful and precious, and it must not be allowed to go to waste.”

— George Selden

“I can’t overstate how little I knew about myself at 22, or how little I’d thought about what I was doing. When I graduated…

— Lev Grossman

“There was never talent, only hard work.”

— Yixing Zhang

“There was something about succeeding at what you tried, especially when people needed your talent. Okay, so that talent happened to be illegal breaking…

— Kalayna Price

“A talent is no talent, unless it is used for the benefit of other people.”

— Bryant McGill

“Talent can take you so far; Hardwork can take you ANYWHERE.”

— Hiruma

Say not thou lackest talent. What talent had any of the greatest, but passionate faith in the efficacy of work?

— John Lancaster Spalding