Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.

It is impossible for a star to shine and not get noticed, even in the dark.

Planting a flower in the desert takes greater skill than growing a garden in a rain forest.

Use your mind’s talents diligently, your heart’s powers incredibly, and your soul’s genius profitably.

Regardless of where you started, there is always the next level. You need to keep leveling up your skills.

There's no difficulty that love cannot conquer... no door love cannot open...No wall enough love will not bring down... only if we could love enough When love, skill, a talent or gift work together... we create a masterpieceLove someone with your skill, your talent or our gift... Make someone's life easier... Make someone happy today... Create your masterpiece today

Casting a curious gaze down on planet Earth, extra-terrestrial beings could well be forgiven for assuming that we humans are programmed in every move we make, by a palm-sized, oblong, slab of glass. More perplexing than that, who on earth could convince them otherwise ?

If you press grapes, wine will pour out; if you crush roses, perfume will pour out; if you afflict the talented, genius will pour out.

Talent is like a little seed; when nurtured, it will flourish.

Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly.

A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose its symphonies.

A bird will only fall from the sky when it stops believing in its ability to fly, and a fish will only drown in water when it stops believing in its ability to swim.

Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius.

A small sharp axe clears a forest quicker than a big blunt one.

A lion is born knowing how to hunt, but has to learn how to hunt well.

If you try to cultivate your talents in someone else’s shadow, they might wilt.

Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules.

The storm only comes to teach you how to skillfully sail your ship.

When excellence comes in at the door, failure flies out the window.

You don't have to boast for work that speaks for itself.

Stars shine on us, but talent shines in us.

If you seek success, serve others. If you seek immortality give. Serve or give your time, skills, talent or gift. In the end, what you leave behind are trails of the lives you changed and the hearts you touched.

When you apply that gift you possess that comes so easily to you and can be used anywhere, anytime to help someone else; maybe your family, your community, your city, state, country or the world in general... that is your PURPOSE.

If God wanted the sky to be empty, He would not have given birds wings to fly.

Your talent is a seed; cultivate it, and in no time, you will harvest success.

A bird in a nest is secure, but that is not why God gave it wings.

When excellence becomes a habit, success becomes a lifestyle.

A hunter’s meal is in proportion to his skill.

If you water your dreams with excellence, success will grow.

Quiet birds rob the universe of beautiful symphonies.

Do what no one else can do and you will become what no one else can become.

You become the master of what you master.

Excellence is the key that opens successes' door.

Excellence in obscurity is better than mediocrity in the spotlight.

An eagle does not crawl because it was born to fly.

Today’s amateurs are tomorrow’s champions.

A bird that fears falling off of a tree branch is ignorant of its gifts.

A lion's greater talents are revealed in the jungle, not in the circus.

It is never a river’s fault that one cannot swim.

If God wanted the woods to be quiet, He would not have given birds songs to sing.

Geniuses’ steps take you higher than talent’s leaps.

Don't judge a lion by its swimming abilities.

A spider is slow, but its web catches the fastest flies.

A sharp stick is better than a blunt sword.

Failure is your best asset, complacency is your worst liability, and talent is your greatest capital.

Genius is talent set on fire.

How well you do something determines how well you will be rewarded by it.

Show me your talents and I'll show you your net worth.

Flawed genius is better than flawless talent.

The eagle only knows how high it can fly when it spreads its wings.

The cream rises to the top, even if sour.

The Excellence Manifesto #1I pledge myself to patience.I pledge myself to boldness.I pledge myself to kindness.I pledge myself to prudence.I pledge myself to cheerfulness.I pledge myself to genuineness.I pledge myself to goodness.I commit to skilfulness.I commit to diligence.I commit to resourcefulness.I commit to excellence.I commit to perseverance.I commit to brilliance.I commit to transcendence.

Skill is the bridge between success and great success.

Works from the soul transcend works from the mind.

As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious.

The spirit of excellence exorcises the demon of mediocrity.

Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces.

The human mind has a tendency to observe unsystematic events and assign a pattern to the results. A habitual risk-taker reorganizes the stream of random events and retrospectively attributes the outcome of indiscriminate trials to their own gambling “strategies.” We often hear people say that they are lucky or unlucky, when in actuality they can claim no ownership in the occurrence of chaotic outcomes. A false sense of the existence of luck can cause people to discount the value of their actual effort, skill, and training.