Top 100 Quotes About Skills (2025 Update)
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51. “No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.”

— Carol S. Dweck

52. “Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.”

— Tony Hsieh

53. “Don’t waste talent. No matter what you do, don’t waste talent.”

— Ray Lewis

54. “Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn.”

— Satya Nadella

55. “If a person will spend one hour a day on the same subject for five years, that person will be an expert on that subject.”

— Earl Nightingale

56. “Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate.”

— Johan Cruijff

57. “If you can’t communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you’re giving up your potential.”

— Warren Buffett

58. “Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”

— Henry van Dyke

59. “Focus on your strengths.”

— Brian Tracy

60. “Know your strengths and take advantage of them...”

— Greg Norman

61. “It’s what you practice in private that you will be rewarded for in public.”

— Tony Robbins

62. “If you want to learn to swim, jump into the water. On dry land, no frame of mind is ever going to help you.”

— Bruce Lee

63. “As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.”

— Vincent van Gogh

64. “Continue to study and learn new skills.”

— Edie McClurg

65. “My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn.”

— Michael Jordan

66. “Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.”

— Shinichi Suzuki

67. “Learn to hide your need and show your skill.”

— Jim Rohn

68. “The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.”

— Denis Waitley

69. “When it comes to mastering a skill, time is the magic ingredient.”

— Robert Greene

70. “Lucky is where skill meets persistence.”

— Robin S. Sharma

71. “Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.”

— Carl R. Rogers

72. “Hire for attitude, train for skill.”

— Herb Kelleher

73. “Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied.”

— Alexander the Great

74. “Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.”

— Alan Turing

75. “Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what’s your plan to read?”

— Jim Rohn

76. “Excellence is not a skill, excellence is an attitude.”

— Conor McGregor

77. “Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one’s financial success is due one’s technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.”

— Dale Carnegie

78. “Teamwork appears most effective if each individual helps others to succeed, increasing the synergy of that team; ideally, every person will contribute different skills to increase the efficiency of the team and develop its unity.”

— Andrew Carnegie

79. “Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

80. “Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.”

— John Ruskin

81. “A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.”

— Larry Bird

82. “Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

83. “Have faith in your skills, negative thoughts kill. Self-doubt will kill your dreams before others do. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”

— Suzy Kassem

84. “You don’t hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.”

— Herb Kelleher

85. “This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name.”

— Mike Shinoda

86. “Being afraid on the court means you’re not confident of your skills.”

— Michael Jordan

87. “Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, your motive and your intent with people. Competence includes your capabilities, your skills, and your track record. Both are vital.”

— Stephen R. Covey

88. “Build your own business team. Survival in business requires a synergy of skills.”

— Richard Branson

89. “Set a goal to become a millionaire for what it makes of you to achieve it. Do it for the skills you have to learn and the person you have to become.”

— Jim Rohn

90. “The 2 master skills of life are: The Science of Achievement and The Art of Fulfillment.”

— Tony Robbins

91. “Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.”

— Douglas B. Reeves

92. “Determine that today you will overcome your self of the day before, tomorrow you will win over those of lesser skill, and later you will win over those of greater skill.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

93. “The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don’t bother thinking about becoming a business owner.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

94. “Go for civil engineering, because civil engineering is the branch of engineering which teaches you the most about managing people. Managing people is a skill which is very, very useful and applies almost regardless of what you do.”

— John Harvey-Jones

95. “My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.”

— Dale Carnegie

96. “I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can’t begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can’t see how others have done it.”

— Richard Stallman

97. “I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.”

— Walt Disney

98. “Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn.”

— Stephen Hawking

99. “Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no ’me; there is love and beauty, and this is art. This is skill in action.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

100. “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”

— Jim Rohn