Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Your big picture will never be a masterpiece if you ignore the tiny brushstrokes. You're trying so hard to be successful that true success is eluding you.

If you love something and if you're committed and diligent - the things happen!

Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few marks are made in the world's history by eight-hour-day men.... Sir Joshua Reynolds had but one maxim for success: Work, work, work. Is not rigid and continuous training necessary for the making of strong athletes? Hard work is not fatal to real success. Vouloir c'est pouvoir.

I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

You never know when the break is going to come, so you have to keep plugging away.

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.

People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because they haven't accomplished what they wanted to on the first go-round. They're willing to do it twenty times, if necessary. There's an illusion that the good people can easily do something, and it's not necessarily true. They're just determined to do it right. I was impressed by hearing one of the women at Radcliffe talk about writing a poem, how many revisions a single poem sometimes has to go through -- fifty or sixty revisions to come out with a poem sixteen lines long.

It is said that good things come to those who wait. I believe that good things come to those who work.

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.

The common denominator for success is work.

Effort is grossly underrated.

Nothing meaningful or lasting comes without working hard at it.

Talent without work is useless, thank God

Perseverance is a great element of success.