126 Skills Quotes That Will Inspire You To Achieve Success In Life And Business | Hobby Sprout (2024)

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Skills Quotes

A Skill is the ability to do an activity, job, or anything very well to produce the best result. Skills can be digital skills, technical skills, and Life Skills, and some of them are even considered Rare Skills and they can have tremendous benefits for your personal and business life.

Here are the best Skills Quotes and Quotes about Skills that will encourage you to learn and hone your Life skills and business or work skills.

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Best Skills Quotes

Here are the best skills quotes that will inspire you to be you’re your best at your profession and in your personal endeavors. ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE

• “Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.” – Scott Adams
• “Continue to study and learn new skills.” — Edie McClurg
• “You only ever have three things: 1) your self, well-being, and mindset 2) Your life network, resources, and resourcefulness 3) Your reputation and goodwill. Treasure and tend the first. Value, support and build the second. And mindfully, wisely ensure that the third (your life current and savings account) is always in credit.” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru
• “Repetition is the mother of skill.” — Tony Robbins
• “Build your skills, not your resume.” — Sheryl Sandberg
• “Nobody ever mastered any skill except through intensive persistent and intelligent practice.” — Norman Vincent Peale
• “My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn.” — Michael Jordan
• “Learn to hide your need and show your skill.” — Jim Rohn
• “Lucky is where skill meets persistence.” — Robin S. Sharma
• “The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.” — Denis Waitley
• “Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.” — Alan Turing
• “When it comes to mastering a skill, time is the magic ingredient.” — Robert Greene
• “Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.”— Shinichi Suzuki
• “Life is like a tango; fortunate are the few who can master it.” ― A.J. Garces
• “A good entrepreneur converts his skills to cash.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions
• “Learn like a bird, create tools, and improve your abilities” ― Dil Nawaz
• “A profession that completely matches your talent, aspirations and skills is the best profession you can choose.” ― Eraldo Banovac
• “Paper qualification is no longer enough in today’s competitive society. You need skills that people will pay for.” ― Emi Iyalla
• “Skills and proficiency is the greatest miracle that a man needs.” ― Sunday Adelaja
• “Two thirds of success is skill.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo
• “Success is skill inside out.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo
• “The pursuit of knowledge and the skills that come with it must be done strategically. We must put the society we live in into serious consideration before we embark on this journey. ― Emi Iyalla
• We can’t isolate our skills from the need of the society we live in” ― Emi Iyalla
• “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 trials of the lives you changed and the hearts you touched.” ― Val Uchendu
• “It is the skills that you have acquired through difficulties that will give you the desired result.” ― Sunday Adelaja
• “Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo
• “The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections with others.” ― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
• “The sky won’t shed tears if stars refuse to shine; it will wait for the sun. ― Matshona Dhliwayo
• “Keeping the consistency in seeking knowledge and developing the skills towards achieving your goals are the most important steps in making your dreams come into reality.” ― Jesus Apolinaris
• “Don’t choose men by their CVs but by their TVs; their Talents and Visions.” ― Bernard Kelvin Clive
• “Amongst a lot of precious things in the world, the precious most is the knowledge. And amongst the number of knowledges, the most beneficial is the knowledge of the skill.” ― Junaid Raza

Quotes About Skills

• “Your certificate and skills are vital but only to the extent of jump-starting your career and giving you a chance to compete in a global space.” ― Bernard Kelvin Clive
• “Skills open the doors to opportunities. They break every economic boundary and empowers societies to maximize their potential. Nothing else is that powerful.” ― Emi Iyalla, Skills That Pay The Bills
• “Only a few are genius due to genetics, and the rest of the genius are due to subconscious mind activity of habits and beliefs.” ― Venu CV, Master Your Skills To Succeed
• “Skills don’t die; only people do.” ― Anas Hamshari
• “Some managers ignore the long-lasting nature of skills acquired through training. They give employees no alternative skills which can be used beyond their current jobs. Unless, if those employees get selected for new positions.” ― Mitta Xinindlu
• “What you do again and again defines who you are” ― Atef Ashab Uddin Sahil
• “The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.” — Robert Greene
• “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
• “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
• “Excellence is not a skill, excellence is an attitude.” — Conor McGregor
• “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
• “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
• “Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what’s your plan to read?” — Jim Rohn
• “Hire for attitude, train for skill.” — Herb Kelleher
• “Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.”— Gary Vaynerchuk
• “Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.” — Gary Vaynerchuk
• “Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.” — John Ruskin
• “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
• “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
• “You don’t hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.” — Herb Kelleher
• “Build your own business team. Survival in business requires a synergy of skills.” — Richard Branson
• “Being afraid on the court, means you’re not confident of your skills.” — Michael Jordan
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “The 2 master skills of life are: The Science of Achievement and The Art of Fulfillment.” — Tony Robbins
• “Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.” — Douglas B. Reeves
• “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
• “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
• “My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.” — Dale Carnegie
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “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
• Excellence is not a skill, it’s an attitude. — Ralph Marston
• The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers. ― A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
• It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. — Wilbur Wright
• 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 evry part of your life. — Brian Tracy
• Resilience isn’t a single skill. It’s a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive. — Jean Chatzky
• No amount of learning goes to waste. It adds to building your skill set and intellect. — Shruti Haasan
• Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill. — Tony Buzan
• Fairness is not an attitude. It’s a professional skill that must be developed and exercised. Brit Hume
• The most important skill you need is the ability to learn how to change and grow. — Scott Cook
• I believe that good investors are successful not because of their IQ, but because they have an investing discipline. But, what is more disciplined than a machine? A well-researched machine can make many average investors redundant, leaving behind only the really good human investors with exceptional intuition and skill. — Stanley Druckenmiller
• Force has no place where there is need of skill. — Herodotus
• We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill… it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress. — Li Ka-shing
• During a few days’ halt near Vesontio for the provision of corn and other supplies, a panic arose from inquiries made by our troops and remarks uttered by Gauls and traders, who affirmed that the Germans were men of a mighty frame and an incredible valour and skill at arms. — Julius Caesar
• Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace. — Jim Rohn
• As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill. — Helen Keller
• The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. — Henry Ford
• The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause. — Bertrand Russell
• To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• I’m a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome. — Helen McCrory
• I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. — Edward Appleton
• Selling is a natural skill. It’s developed as a child. You may know it as persuasion. — Jeffrey Gitomer
• Shooting is a skill you can develop. It’s repetition and confidence. — Chris Mullin
• Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don’t try it without that 10 per cent. — Richie Benaud
• ‘Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship. — Thomas Fuller
• It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it. — Baltasar Gracian
• It is only requisite, for me to say to you, that the President places great reliance upon your skill, judgment and intimate knowledge. – Anson Jones
• It’s a skill to navigate uncertainty. — Monty Williams
• My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. — John Bunyan
• Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative. — Leland Stanford
• For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation. — Paracelsus
• When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. — John Ruskin
• I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life. — Dean Koontz
• Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circ*mstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. — Charles R. Swindoll
• Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. — James J. Corbett
• For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. — Sun Tzu
• Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. — George Herbert
• I don’t think age matters. In cricket, if you have the skill, you can go on playing. — Dale Steyn
• More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill – none have wrestled without pride. — Dan Gable
• Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity. — Ellen Key
• Having a skill makes you undeniable. — Angelica Ross
• No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. — Doug Larson
• Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers. — Robert Half
• Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becomes more true the higher the skill level gets. — Eric S. Raymond
• He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. — Edmund Burke
• In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn. — John Naisbitt
• I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis! — Ryan Reynolds
• All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. — Moliere
• “Your greatest asset is the way you think. Not your skills, resources or the position you occupy. Because with the right mindset, you can turn any situation into greater success.” ― Victor Kwegyir
• Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill. — Travis Bradberry
• Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process. — Paul Rand
• An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success. — Stephen Covey
• Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can’t play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there. — Venus Williams
• After costs, only the top 3% of managers produce a return that indicates they have sufficient skill to just cover their costs, which means that going forward, and despite extraordinary past returns, even the top performers are expected to be only as good as a low-cost passive index fund. The other 97% can be expected to do worse. — Eugene Fama
• Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well. — Bill Gates
• If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it. — James A. Garfield
• We’re not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information – and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise. — Nate Silver
• My favorite special skill on my resume is ‘excellent monkey noises. — Ciara Renee
• Whether you are a village jester or the president of a company, never trivialize what you do. Your work, no matter how small you think it is can make a difference in someone’s life. It all begins with you. It’s not what you do, it’s how you do it.” ― Emi Iyalla
• “Permit no man to make mockery of you just because you may not be proficient in something. Remember you are gifted no matter how insignificant it may be, it’s your priced possession, value it” ― Bernard Kelvin Clive

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