Born Quotes
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Nobody is born a dancer.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Leaders are not born or made - they are self made
Stephen Covey
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Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The man who owns whole blocks of real estate, and great ships on the sea, does not own a single minute of tomorrow. Tomorrow! It is a mysterious possibility, not yet born. It lies under the seal of midnight-behind the veil of glittering constellations.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
Will Durant
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For hope is always born at the same time as love.
Miguel de Cervantes
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I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.
Ray Bradbury
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I was not born to get stuff done. I was born to dream it and then move towards it.
Esther Hicks
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I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.
Thomas Hardy
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Surviving means being born over and over.
Erica Jong
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Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
Jonathan Swift
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Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.
Nicholas Stoller
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You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.
Sofia Villani Scicolone
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Greatness is not born from one success. Greatness is born from persevering through the countless failed attempts that preceded.
Simon Sinek
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As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, `Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.'
Nat Hentoff
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I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
Eugene V. Debs
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What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the rest is pure anecdote.
Martin Heidegger
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He seemed born to find flaws in everything, a task at which he excelled and in which he seemed to delight.
Bentley Little
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My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.
Stephen Fry
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No great man is ever born too soon or too late.
Norman Douglas
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I was born in Mount Kisco, New York-although my family was living in the Bronx at the time. That's just where I decided to be born.
Danny Burstein
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Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how.
Seth Godin