Born Quotes

It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.

Bruce Fairchild Barton

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Channing Pollock

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

Voltaire

We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can't speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees.

Nuxalk Nation

You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and never will die. You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.

Richard Bach

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

Petrarch

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

Zig Ziglar

We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.

Samuel Beckett

The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns.

William Shakespeare

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Thomas Gray

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Audrey Hepburn

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.

Robert Southey

We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, "Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?

Jules Renard

A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma.

Sri Yukteswar