Top 100 Quotes About Skills (2025 Update)

1. “The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.”

— Robert Greene

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2. “Don’t wish for less problems; wish for more skills.”

— Jim Rohn

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3. “Build your skills not your resume.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

4. “Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillful, swift, and steady.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Learning Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Dedication Quotes

5. “What ever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.”

— Walt Disney

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6. “Every master was once a beginner. Every pro was once an amateur.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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7. “Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.”

— Brian Tracy

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8. “My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

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9. “Writing is a skill, not a talent, and this difference is important because a skill can be improved by practice.”

— Robert Stacy McCain

10. “To earn more, you must learn more.”

— Brian Tracy

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11. “You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.”

— Michael Jordan

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12. “Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Practice Quotes, Consistency Quotes, Mastery Quotes

13. “The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.”

— Robert Greene

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Mastery Quotes

14. “The expert at anything was once a beginner.”

— Helen Hayes

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Education Quotes, Experience Quotes, Growth Quotes

15. “Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.”

— Will Smith

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Learning Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes

16. “You can only fight the way you practice.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

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17. “Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Career Development Quotes

18. “If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less.”

— Earl Nightingale

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19. “If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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20. “Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise”

— Michael Jordan

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21. “If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”

— Michelangelo

Also featured in: Excellence Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes, Practice Quotes, Artist Quotes

22. “Champions are brilliant at the basics.”

— John Wooden

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23. “Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work.”

— David Rockefeller

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24. “Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.”

— Robert Greene

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25. “Nobody ever mastered any skill except through intensive, persistent and intelligent practice.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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26. “Practice every time you get a chance.”

— Bill Monroe

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Practice Quotes

27. “Consistency is the DNA of mastery.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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28. “I am the best in the world at what I do.”

— Chris Jericho

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Personality Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Ego Quotes

29. “Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.”

— Colin Powell

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Ego Quotes

30. “You can’t read about push ups. You gotta do them.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Fitness Quotes

31. “The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Discipline Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Career Development Quotes, Future Quotes

32. “Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you’ll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Study Quotes, Lifelong Learning Quotes, Self-Empowerment Quotes

33. “Hard work pays off – hard work beats talent any day, but if you’re talented and work hard, it’s hard to be beat.”

— Robert Griffin III

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34. “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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35. “Lead by listening – to be a good leader you have to be a great listener.”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Work, Boss Quotes, Thursday Inspirational Quotes

36. “Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

Also featured in: Excellence Quotes, Preparation Quotes, Practice Quotes

37. “See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

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38. “Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there’s feedback.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

Also featured in: Performance Quotes, Preparation Quotes, Practice Quotes

39. “Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Career Development Quotes, Quotes About Work

40. “Practice makes the master.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

Also featured in: Preparation Quotes, Practice Quotes, Mastery Quotes

41. “Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.”

— Ted Williams

Also featured in: Dedication Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Consistency Quotes

42. “Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you’re willing to practice, you can do.”

— Bob Ross

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Passion Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Practice Quotes

43. “Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Excellence Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Creative Quotes, Marketing Quotes

44. “In whatever you do, strive to be the best at it.”

— Aliko Dangote

Also featured in: Prosperity Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Goal Setting Quotes, Competition Quotes

45. “Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What’s a sundial in the shade?”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Humanism Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes, Individuality Quotes

46. “I am the best. There is nobody better than me.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Also featured in: Victory Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Ego Quotes, Boxing Quotes

47. “Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty.”

— K. Anders Ericsson

Also featured in: Excellence Quotes, Preparation Quotes, Practice Quotes, Mastery Quotes

48. “Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.”

— Dale Carnegie

Also featured in: Overcoming Fear Quotes, Practice Quotes, Communication Quotes

49. “Repetition is the mother of skill.”

— Tony Robbins

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50. “I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.”

— Linus Torvalds

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