Achievement Quote by Helene Hanff

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

— William Hazlitt

Genius is power, talent is applicability.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

— Eugene Delacroix

Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— James Russell Lowell

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

— Malcolm Cowley

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

— Anonymous

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

— Janet Flanner

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

— Charles Saatchi

Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.

— Steve Martin

You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius.

— Margot Asquith

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

— Anonymous