Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

You are watching what greatness is all about.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits to what humans can do and that you can always be pushing, whatever limit you think might be there.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

A Time of Greatness.

What I'm proud of, we learned from our lessons.

The biggest fear in my life is being mediocre.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

I consider myself a genius because, when you talk about anything and everything, you a genius to me. It's just about makin' it fire on top o' more fire.

Being an All-Star is everything.

Being named among the best at something is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.