Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

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

I believe in talent. I know you're not supposed to believe in that anymore because you're supposed to believe if you just work hard you can do anything. That's how you succeed, maybe. But talent is something you're born with. You cannot acquire it by working hard, and you cannot lose it by lying around either.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

If you've got the talent it'll shine through.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.

Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.

There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.

I'm a professional world champion. Of course if you're a world champion, you're working harder than everybody else. You're making the commitment, and you're making the sacrifices. If it were easy, everybody would be able to do it. Everybody would be able to be world champion, but everybody can't be. Everybody doesn't have it in them.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

You need a lot of effort and talent to produce greatness.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.

Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.

Welcome every talent, hail every invention, cherish every gem of art—foster every gleam of authorship, honor every acquirement and every natural gift, lift ourselves to the level of our destinies...

No matter how talented you are or naturally gifted you are, there's no substitute to hard work if you got to maintain standards.

I feel lucky. I feel blessed. If you get blessed with some ability, I think you have to work hard at it. Michael Jordan was a great basketball player, but he wasn't the best shooter, even though he had the skill, and he had to work and work at it.

I've been blessed with a lot of talent, and if I just continue to work hard, then I think my name will be up there with some of the best.

To get to the top, you must put in a lot of hard work, but you also need to be blessed with talent.