Every man, every woman, every child has some talent, some power, some opportunity of getting good and doing good. Each day offers some occasion for using this talent. As we use it, it gradually increases, improves, becomes native to the character. As we neglect it, it dwindles, withers, and disappears. This is the stern but benign law by which we live. James Clarke
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What's a sundial in the shade? - Benjamin Franklin
  2. The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. - Anonymous
  3. Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. - Mel Brooks
  4. Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  5. Every talent must unfold itself in fighting. - Friedrich Nietzsche
More Quotes By James Clarke
  1. In the irresistible logic of guilt, one evil leads to another, one sin is developed out of another. There is nothing abrupt, nothing casual in the process. The road to sin is smooth, because an army of transgressions has passed over it. When such a...
  2. If you will only consider, you will remember many a person of whom the world never heard and will never hear, whose years have been as full of generosity, loyalty to duty, faith in God, fidelity to every day's work, as those of Franklin or...
  3. All boys wish to be manly; but they often try to become so by copying the vices of men rather than their virtues. They see men drinking, smoking, swearing; so these poor little fellows sedulously imitate such bad habits, thinking they are making themselves more...
  4. Every man, every woman, every child has some talent, some power, some opportunity of getting good and doing good. Each day offers some occasion for using this talent. As we use it, it gradually increases, improves, becomes native to the character. As we neglect it,...
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