100 Quotes About Talent

We all have something special to offer the world. Sometimes people would say we are born with it, but more often than not our gifts are discovered or honed by experience. Whether you are a poet or painter, an athlete or an entrepreneur, your talent is part of who you are. And whatever your gift, these quotes about talent will inspire you to find it and use it to the fullest.

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Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) One time. When I met ya girl my heart when knock (knock knock) Now them butterflies in my stomach won't stop (stop stop) Even love is a struggle and it's all we got. So we gun keep keep climbing to the mountain top. 'Cause your world, is my world, and my breath is your breath, and my heart is yours.. . Justin Bieber
Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more...
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Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine. Roy T. Bennett
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You are unique. You have different talents and abilities. You don’t have to always follow in the footsteps of others. And most important, you should always remind yourself that you don't have to do what everyone else is doing and have a responsibility to develop the talents you have been given. Roy T. Bennett
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. Arthur Schopenhauer
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According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world--and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance. . Deepak Chopra
Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.
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Talent is a gift, but character is a choice. John C. Maxwell
Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.
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Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard. Kevin Durant
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Hugh consoled me, saying, "Don't let it get to you. There are plenty of things you're good at." When asked for some examples, he listed vacuuming and naming stuffed animals. He says he can probably come up with a few more, but he'll need some time to think. David Sedaris
I tell you this true story just to prove that...
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I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story. Joan Didion
When I stand before God at the end of my...
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me. Erma Bombeck
Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics...
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Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them. Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The most talented people are always the nicest.
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The most talented people are always the nicest. James Caan
When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick...
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When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief. Israelmore Ayivor
I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew...
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I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this., New York Times, April 19, 1992] Cormac McCarthy
Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything...
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Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter. Ogwo David Emenike
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People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
No tricks, no tools, but talent makes a task truly...
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No tricks, no tools, but talent makes a task truly top class. Amit Kalantri
Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.
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Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed. Amit Kalantri
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You’re perfect! You have everything you need to fulfill your purpose. Izey Victoria Odiase
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Base words are uttered only by the base And can for such at once be understood; But noble platitudes – ah, there's a case Where the most careful scrutiny is needed To tell a voice that's genuinely good From one that's base but merely has succeeded. W.h. Auden
Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no...
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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach. Alexander Pope
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I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly. Umberto Eco
This man has talent, that man genius And here's the...
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This man has talent, that man genius And here's the strange and cruel difference: Talent gives pence and his reward is gold, Genius gives gold and gets no more than pence. W.H. Davies
If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make...
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If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it. Criss Jami
They all believed in him because of the authenticity of...
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They all believed in him because of the authenticity of his musical talent and his faith in it. Amit Kalantri
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It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don't like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable. . Ashly Lorenzana
Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something...
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Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express. Brenda Ueland
If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.
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If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings. Haruki Murakami
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Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don't display great talent and have some success right away, they won't succeed. But writing is about struggling through and learning and finding out what it is about writing itself that you really love. Laura Kasischke
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There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself. Flannery OConnor
The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is...
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The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved. Marge Piercy
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that – the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance. That is, to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is. . curiosity to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does. And if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got that or not.]. William Faulkner
To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune...
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To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune but to write and read comes by nature. William Shakespeare
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It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes, ” [T.S. Eliot] wrote, “who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent. Ross Wetzsteon
If you wrote something for which someone sent you a...
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If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented. Stephen King
Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a...
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Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter. Stephen King
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But...
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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents. Eric Hoffer
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If careful attention is paid to the reality, we will see clearly, the real shortage is of the right skills, rather than of jobs. If the right skills are developed, the right start-ups and other enterprises will emerge and provide the jobs needed. It’s always the horse before the cart, not the other way round. At a personal level, it will require the realisation of the need for the acquisition of required skills, the discipline to pursue it and the commitment to push through. These will require a great deal of personal courage and effort. But then, the benefit will be immeasurable. Emi Iyalla
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Don’t be silent on your talent! Israelmore Ayivor
Find your gift, the thing you were created for, the...
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Find your gift, the thing you were created for, the thing that inspires you and the thing you are fond of doing, and the thing you are doing better than others Sunday Adelaja
To have a mission is to find a thing that...
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To have a mission is to find a thing that inspires you the most Sunday Adelaja
The more we know, the deeper we will understand our...
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The more we know, the deeper we will understand our topic, so it will be easier to implement it Sunday Adelaja
Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a...
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Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a book of 100 million pages. It's just a matter of believing it as possible, and taking the cross millimetre by millimetre. Israelmore Ayivor
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If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God. Timothy J. Keller
I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead...
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I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society. Criss Jami
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Don’t be bothered with what you think other people expect of you when it comes to your raw talent. Amber Hurdle
Our fulfillment in life and career meets with success when...
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Our fulfillment in life and career meets with success when we give our best as per our unique talent, gifting, strengths while willing to team up with others in the areas of our limitations... Assegid Habtewold
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Success and talent aren’t even in the same neighborhood. Jenny Trout
A potential is a hidden greatness. It is the success...
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A potential is a hidden greatness. It is the success to be realized. It is an accomplishment yet to be uncovered. Israelmore Ayivor
Your words control your life, your progress, your results, even...
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Your words control your life, your progress, your results, even your mental and physical health. You cannot talk like a failure and expect to be successful. Germany Kent
The key to your success in the world is to...
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The key to your success in the world is to discover the field of your gift Sunday Adelaja
The key to your success on planet earth is to...
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The key to your success on planet earth is to find the field where your gift would be of the highest benefit Sunday Adelaja
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You will only succeed in the field where your gift is Sunday Adelaja
The key to your success in this world is to...
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The key to your success in this world is to discover the field of your gifts Sunday Adelaja
All great and successful people stayed alone with themselves to...
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All great and successful people stayed alone with themselves to develop their gift Sunday Adelaja
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You only ever have three things: 1) your self, wellbeing and mindset 2) Your life network, resources and resourcefulness 3) Your reputation and goodwill. Treasure and tend the first. Value, support and build the second. And mindfully, wisely ensure that the third (your life current and savings account) is always in credit. Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Study the lives of highly successful people from any corner of life, across history, in any environment, and you will discover they share one trait: They keep moving forward. Sometimes slowly. Often with great difficulty. Frequently after painful mistakes, defeats, or failures. Success is less about talent and opportunities, and more about commitment and motivation. Joe Jordan
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Adele doesn't need any ironic detachment. She can love and appreciate the talent of others without feeling threatened herself. This is often very hard for people. We usually worry that someone else's talent or success is being compared with our own so we take the role of a critic and evaluate people harshly in order to protect our own egos. People like Adele focus on what they like and they ignore the comparisons. Plus, they let the people around them know when they found something that they love about their work or their art. Charlie Houpert
The common feature of most of the successful people is,...
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The common feature of most of the successful people is, their talent is flexible to suit the needs of time. Rajasaraswathii
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Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves. Ken Robinson
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I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge to him. He had been adapted to the verses and had learnt the art of making them to such perfection. I did doubt whether Richard would not have profited by some one studying him a little, instead of his studying them quite so much. Charles Dickens
Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most...
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Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years. Alexis De Tocqueville
...talent is evenly distributed. You never know how many talented...
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...talent is evenly distributed. You never know how many talented people are out there until you invite and inspire them to be creative. John Wood
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Because you have honored God, He will put you in a position you never could have attained on your own. It’s not just your education, not just your talent, or the family you come from. It’s the hand of God shifting you to a new level of your destiny. Joel Osteen
When a man begins to do that which is assigned...
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When a man begins to do that which is assigned to him, it becomes as if he is more endowed and favoured than his fellows. Ogwo David Emenike
The more you express your skills, the more experienced you...
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The more you express your skills, the more experienced you become and the closer you get to excellence. Israelmore Ayivor
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But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superior to those of other people than from the faculty of transforming and transposing them. To heat a liquid with an electric lamp requires not the strongest lamp possible, but one of which the current can cease to illuminate, can be diverted so as to give heat instead of light. To mount the skies it is not necessary to have the most powerful of motors, one must have a motor which, instead of continuing to run along the earth's surface, intersecting with a vertical line the horizontal line which it began by following, is capable of converting its speed into lifting power. Similarly, the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is the most brilliant or their culture the most extensive, but those who have had the power, ceasing suddenly to live only for themselves, to transform their personality into a sort of mirror, in such a way that their life, however mediocre it may be socially and even, in a sense, intellectually, is reflected by it, genius consisting in reflecting power and not int he intrinsic quality of the scene reflected. . Marcel Proust
You can achieve great things by utilizing your God-given talent
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You can achieve great things by utilizing your God-given talent Sunday Adelaja
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Adamant, " Doren said proudly, handing over the shield. "We fished it out of the tar pit where we found the shirt of mail."" Probably all belonged to the same careless adventurer, " Newel speculated. "Too much money, not enough talent. Brandon Mull
Tim and Raine are coming in.
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Tim and Raine are coming in."" Are they insane?"" Apparently. Susan Bischoff
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...Come on let’s see the degree.” Katherine unrolled her scroll displaying a long declaration in Latin affixed with a red seal proclaiming her a Master of Art. “Imagine working for years to obtain a piece of paper we can hardly read ” Katherine joked. “And to officially declare you have talent ” Suzy returned. E.a. Bucchianeri
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He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader. Because we mustn’t deceive ourselves: on the journey of reading we often travel through difficult terrains that demand a capacity for intelligent emotion, a desire to understand the other, and to approach a language distinct from the one of our daily tyrannies… Writers fail readers, but it also happens the other way around and readers fail writers when all they ask of them is confirmation that the world is how they see it. Enrique VilaMatas
Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the...
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Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression. Robert McKee
A system should be viable, it should let your dream...
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A system should be viable, it should let your dream to be developed and born Sunday Adelaja
Find the right surroundings, the people who will help you...
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Find the right surroundings, the people who will help you to carry out your mission and realize your gift Sunday Adelaja
You need to determine the field of your gift and...
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You need to determine the field of your gift and enter into the realm of experts for that calling Sunday Adelaja
Only you are responsible for the development of your gift...
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Only you are responsible for the development of your gift and for its brilliant after the process of its refinement Sunday Adelaja
You must find your own gift, the activity you are...
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You must find your own gift, the activity you are fond of and the activity you were created for Sunday Adelaja
To have a mission is to find a thing you...
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To have a mission is to find a thing you were created for Sunday Adelaja
To have a mission is to find the thing that...
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To have a mission is to find the thing that you are fond of doing, a thing that you can do better than others Sunday Adelaja
You will be influential and powerful in the field of...
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You will be influential and powerful in the field of your gift and talent Sunday Adelaja
Your calling is to serve people and humanity with this...
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Your calling is to serve people and humanity with this gift Sunday Adelaja
We all have some talents and abilities that differentiate us...
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We all have some talents and abilities that differentiate us from others Sunday Adelaja
Your gift is not what you do but what you...
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Your gift is not what you do but what you really are Sunday Adelaja
What will support you consists in your gift, so until...
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What will support you consists in your gift, so until you find yourself you will be poor Sunday Adelaja
A man’s gift will give him freeway in the world
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A man’s gift will give him freeway in the world Sunday Adelaja
When you discover your gift the whole world will seek...
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When you discover your gift the whole world will seek you Sunday Adelaja
If you work on yourself intellectually, you will be able...
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If you work on yourself intellectually, you will be able to realize your potential Sunday Adelaja
If you work on yourself spiritually, you will be able...
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If you work on yourself spiritually, you will be able to realize your potential Sunday Adelaja
Be a slave of your potential and not a slave...
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Be a slave of your potential and not a slave of circumstances Sunday Adelaja
Anyone who wants to be great and influential person should...
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Anyone who wants to be great and influential person should be ready to pay the highest price in order to develop their gifts and submit themselves to this gift Sunday Adelaja
To submit one’s self to one’s gift is to submit...
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To submit one’s self to one’s gift is to submit oneself to education and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one’s gift Sunday Adelaja
You need to maximize your Gods given potential through the...
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You need to maximize your Gods given potential through the power of your spirit, your inner core, your values and principles on which your life is based Sunday Adelaja
We have something very valuable, for which we have not...
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We have something very valuable, for which we have not yet found an application in this life Sunday Adelaja
All you have already done, achieved and opened it is...
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All you have already done, achieved and opened it is not a potential Sunday Adelaja
Those gifts and talents, which are incorporated in you and...
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Those gifts and talents, which are incorporated in you and have not yet been implemented, make your potential Sunday Adelaja
You should look inside of yourself and see the person...
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You should look inside of yourself and see the person who is there Sunday Adelaja
There are many things that have distorted the person inside...
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There are many things that have distorted the person inside you from what you were created to be Sunday Adelaja
Every man was created a one- and- only individual, as...
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Every man was created a one- and- only individual, as a person with a specific gift Sunday Adelaja
Your gift is what you were created to be
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Your gift is what you were created to be Sunday Adelaja