Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Natural ability without education has more often attained 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.

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

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.

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

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

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

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

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

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...

There are plenty of players who have a lot of talent. It's all about getting the best out of yourself and you'll have to work very hard to achieve that.

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

It's funny: there's this idea where Kenny is only good because he can do what he wants, and he gets time. Well, everyone else through those doors had had time and opportunity. Why didn't they do anything special?

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.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

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.

Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others.

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.