Nadia Boulanger Quotes

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

If you're going to put me in the booth, make sure it's because I'm good enough to be there.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

If you are good enough, you should play.

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.

You only deserve what you make yourself worthy of.

Wayne is truly blessed. He doesn't just have ability, he has a fire inside him.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent.

To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.

Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth

The bible does not say that a man's education makes room for him, but that his gifts does. Education is not the key to success, it doesn,t guarantee anything; it is your gift that is the key to success

Every man who can be a first-rate something -- as every man can be who is a man at all -- has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.

Not all men are worthy of love.

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it's not how you look; it's how you perform.

One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it.

Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.

One is not worthy to have what one, through weakness, lets be taken from him; one is not worthy of it because one is not capable of it.

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

and "good" doesn't mean he's worthy of you , does it ?

Genius is power, talent is applicability.

As long as you have breath, someone needs your talents.