Different Quote by David Gemmell

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is…

— Dorothy Fields

Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute…

— Charles Rollin

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

— James Russell Lowell

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that…

— Anonymous

Some guys have all this talent, and you wonder why they can't put it all together. Well, they don't do any of the little…

— Kelvin Sampson

My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a…

— Sammy Davis, Jr

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

— Calvin Coolidge

Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.

— Charles R. Swindoll

Talents are never gifted but they are always created...

— Shakeel Alam

There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

— Joe Strummer

A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson