If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.
Amy WinehouseTalent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.I mean, I wouldn’t pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I’m me.
Terry PratchettI have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.
Marilyn MonroeTolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Gilbert K. ChestertonPeople who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Andrew CarnegieNo evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.
SocratesThe fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
Niccolo MachiavelliVirtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
William ShakespeareWisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.
LeBron JamesGlory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Marcus Tullius CiceroSuspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
Hosea BallouEveryone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Napoleon HillThe Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Henry David ThoreauThere never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin FranklinThe difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Alexander PopeWith drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.
Dwayne JohnsonCourage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. LewisI’m no genius.
Lou HoltzA tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
George OrwellIf virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
EpictetusI have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I’m on form, I can sell anything.
Brian EnoAlthough modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
Karl LagerfeldPuerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.
Bad BunnyI tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‚This is a world smash!‘ when I finish a song.
Bruno MarsSweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.
William ShakespeareWith people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Arthur SchopenhauerHe is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
VoltaireI want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.
Stephen CurryLet us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Mahatma GandhiAllah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.
Muhammad AliThe endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
Baruch SpinozaDiscretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
Francis BaconI was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
Lady GagaKnow then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Alexander PopeHe who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
ConfuciusPatriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar WildeI think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House – with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
John F. KennedySincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
Charles SpurgeonTo suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
James MadisonMy mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.
Bruno MarsIf I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.
Jim CarreyBlushing is the color of virtue.
DiogenesI promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.
Maya AngelouVirtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
BuddhaFew men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George WashingtonI’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.
Tom BradyI put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar WildeThis life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William ShakespeareIn truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Thomas JeffersonI don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.
Kevin HartIt is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.
Narendra ModiThere are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.
Jocko WillinkI didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.
Amy WinehouseIt is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
VoltaireAbility is nothing without opportunity.
Napoleon BonaparteAll government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund BurkeBut what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke