Gifted Quotes

“Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it doesn’t fall under the creative arts category—writing, dancing, music, acting, art or singing. Sadly, they let their real talents go undeveloped, while they chase after fame. I am grateful for the people with obscure unremarked talents because they make our lives easier---inventors, organizers, planners, peacemakers, communicators, activists, scientists, and so forth. However, there is one gift that trumps all other talents—being an excellent parent. If you can successfully raise a child in this day in age to have integrity then you have left a legacy that future generations will benefit from.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper...”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“We are treasure chests with more jewels inside than we can imagine.”
― Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“There are times when the unseen can be even more dangerous than what our eyes behold.”
― Erin Forbes, Fire & Ice: The Elementals

“So, what can I do?” I asked.

“Annoy?”

I gave him a hurt look.

Justus pulled the tip of his hoodie over his eye and lowered his voice. “It remains to be seen; sometimes it takes years to uncover abilities.”

“Maybe I can’t do anything.”

His blue eyes flashed up to mine. “Learner, we are all gifted.”
― Dannika Dark, Sterling

“He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.”
― John Irving, In One Person

“Woe unto all who have walked by the water but not gotten wet, for the sea of tears is now dry, and all who try to fill their bowls will know thirst.”
― John Pease, Ezekiel's Eyes

“Upon the gifted among the misfits lies the burden of building new worlds.”
― M. Mead

“The woman looked her in the eyes. She never moved her lips, but Vera could hear her say, “Stay away from them shadows; that’s where he lives. That’s where he gets his power.”
― John Pease, Ezekiel's Eyes

“Reveal yourself, demon, and shed your mortal guise, for I see you plainly. I am a cup bringer for the one true God, and all who stand opposing shall surely fall” ”
― John Pease, Ezekiel's Eyes

“Your true face,” she said. He replied, “Yes, the ‘face’ that God sees when he talks to me.”
― John Pease, Ezekiel's Eyes

“Because if evil like that is real, then God has to be real too.”
― John Pease, Ezekiel's Eyes

“There is one kind of charity common enough among us… It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor, and heals the sick. I am far from decrying the noble spirit which seeks to help a poor or suffering fellow being… [However] what advances a nation or a community is not so much to prop up its weakest and most helpless members, but to lift up the best and the most gifted, so as to make them of the greatest service to the country.”
― Jamsetji Tata

“Everyone is born with a seed.
One thing is to know what specie you came with.
Another is to know where and how it should be sown.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“There exists in some individuals more than enough talents, expertises, or greatness for more than three people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Often a child's very gifts (his great intensity of feeling, depth of experience, curiosity, intelligence, quickness-and his ability to be critical) will confront his parents with conflicts that they have long sought to keep at bay by means of rules and regulations. These regulations must then be rescued at the cost of the child's development. All of this can lead to an apparently paradoxical situation when parents are proud of their gifted child and who admire him are forced by their own repression to reject, suppress, or even destroy what is best, because truest, in that child.”
― Ruth Ward, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

“Often a child's very gifts (his great intensity of feeling, depth of experience, curiosity, intelligence, quickness-and his ability to be critical) will confront his parents with conflicts that they have long sought to keep at bay by means of rules and regulations. These regulations must then be rescued at the cost of the child's development. All of this can lead to an apparently paradoxical situation when parents are proud of their gifted child and who admire him are forced by their own repression to reject, suppress, or even destroy what is best, because truest, in that child.”
― Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

“Like the sand of the earth, your gifts are countless, and some are stepping on theirs without knowing.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“I have never left this realm, but my feet have walked in many lands.”
― Erin Forbes, Fire & Ice: The Elementals

“Mastering a skill turns a thought into a gift, success is found in presenting that gift to the world.”
― Jonas Caino, Make Rain: 180 Powerful Insights into How Rainmakers Sell Their Way to Financial Success

“It was said of him, that Lydgate could do anything he liked, but he had certainly not yet liked to do anything remarkable. He was a vigorous animal with a ready understanding, but no spark had yet kindled in him an intellectual passion; knowledge seemed to him a very superficial affair, easily mastered: judging from the conversation of his elders, he had apparently got already more than was necessary for mature life.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Many of you should not be hiding your talents form the world because, wow, you are extremely gifted. Forget the fear and shine the light on yourself.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Gifted? I'm skilled. People call others "gifted" when they don't want to believe they're worse at something because they're not willing to put in the work excellence requires.”
― Brent Weeks, The Burning White

“If you are gifted, use that gift to make an impact.”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“All that time she bad allowed herself to be wrapped up in fear - fear of being alone, fear of never finding Anna, fear of destroying the kingdom with her powers, That fear had held her prisoner since she had learned she had magic inside her. It was just as Grand Pabbie had said: she needed to learn to control her magic. If only she embraced the beauty in her life and the magic she'd been gifted - gifted not cursed with-then she could move mountains.
Or at least thaw out he countryside.”
― Jen Calonita, Disney Frozen: Let It Go

“Many of you should not be hiding your talents from the world because, wow, you are extremely gifted.”
― Robin S. Baker