Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

To be recognised as the best in the whole world at something is an achievement.

I am very proud to join the Hall of Fame.

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Few of us get anything without working for it.

If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did, let's face it.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such.

It's an honor to be at the biggest club in the world.

If you win in New York, you're the king of the world.

It would be nice if we could all agree to this proposition: popularity is not the same as achievement.

Greatness is earned, not given.

No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

And everything you get, ya gotta work hard for it.

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.

Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.

I'm not aiming for an Academy Award.