Top 100 Born To Do Quotes
#1. I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.
Fred Hampton
#2. I'm pissed like this rutting beast can't conceive - I'm a lifetime of pissed, of strong, of muscle built over bruise, I'm slick with power and feel the fight as it changes ...
As it flows ...
... Everything into place, perfect, and I finally do what I was born to do.
I slay.
Joss Whedon
#3. How can you be any purer than pure if your name is Carter? How can you get away from being a Carter? There's a part of you that's gonna come through. How do you keep from doing it? It's what you're born to do.
June Carter Cash
#4. When we don't give ourselves fully to the work we were born to do, we do the world - and ourselves - a disservice.
Jeff Goins
#5. Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last.
David Friedman
#6. You've got to wake up every morning and believe, 'I was born to do this.'
Holt McCallany
#7. There were worse fates. He was doing what he was born to do. Fighting on the side of good against radicals who sought to destroy the world. This was the good fight. The best fight.
Isaac Hooke
#8. What had Llodra said? "There is magic inside you. Now you must do what you were born to do.
Laken Cane
#9. In simple words, whatever you were born to do, you were equipped to do it. You are a whole equipment for success!
Israelmore Ayivor
#10. I was born to do sitcoms, where you get an immediate response from the audience.
Kirstie Alley
#11. If you are a real writer, then just surrender to the writer's life, all of it, even the bad stuff. When you do that, the beauty appears: the peace, the meaning, the joy, the fulfillment, the sense that you are doing what you were born to do and what could be better, in the end, than that?
Lauren B. Davis
#12. I am not afraid ... I was born to do this.
Joan Of Arc
#13. Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.
Warren G. Bennis
#14. I feel like I was born to do this ... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
Idina Menzel
#15. Your dreams will stir up the dreams of others and your gift of influence will influence others. You just have to keep dreaming and continue to do the things you were born to do.
Euginia Herlihy
#16. I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do.
Morgan Freeman
#17. I'm a long-flight pilot. Pushing a little bubble of air-filled metal across an ocean of nothing is what I was born to do.
James S.A. Corey
#18. We are not born to wait. We are born to do.
Dean Koontz
#19. I was born to score goals, I feel. How I score them - how I get the ball into the back of the net - might have changed. The actual ability of what I was born to do will never leave me.
Michael Owen
#20. Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.
Alison Gopnik
#21. I traveled and made money and I wouldn't let anybody get between me and my music. If I belong to anything, I belong to my music ... What you were born to do, you don't stop to think, should I? could I? would I? I only think, will I? And, I shall!
Eva Jessye
#22. Your work is what you were born to do. No kind of educational system can teach you your true work, because it is your life purpose, and it is revealed by your God-given gifts.
Dr. Myles Munroe
#23. We each were endowed at birth with a unique gift, something we were born to do or become that no one else can achieve the way we can. God's purpose is that we bear abundant fruit and release the blessings of our gift and potential to the world.
Myles Munroe
#24. I like to think we're all born to do good, but dark things sometimes get in the way.
Anonymous
#25. Fancy it, crave it, desire it and you'll never go wrong because to fancy, to crave and to desire something gives you the ability to focus on your dream and to know this is what you were born to do.
Euginia Herlihy
#26. My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and monsters but I love it, telling stories is what I was born to do.
Ken Scott
#27. It's just what I'm born to do, I'm born to entertain people. I could do it for thirty-thousand people or three people, it's just what I know how to do. My soul objective only is for me to have the audience say 'when's the next time I can see him?' That's what I do.
Mike Tyson
#28. We women need to rise to the occasion. The ayahuasca experience rebirths, inspires, empowers, and ignites us to do that. The Cosmic Sister Plant Spirit Grant is just one small way women can encourage and support women to take that journey and shine as they were born to do.
Zoe Helene
#29. I don't just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift, and I'm making the most of my opportunity.
Nayvadius Cash
#30. I'm born to do music. I'm born to act. I'm born to dance and all of these things, and I will be respected.
Lil' Mama
#31. Whatever it is I'm born to do, my fear of failing at it has almost become greater than my desire to figure out what it is.
Ann Kidd Taylor
#32. His eyes fixed on hers, the gold flecks darkening to amber. An assassin who looks after his own skin? That's exactly what I am, Brenna. I would rather die than harm you, but anyone else? I could kill them without blinking. It's what I was born to do.
Nalini Singh
#33. When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.
Anne Sexton
#34. Your work is not your job. Your job is what they pay you to do; your work is what you were born to do.
Myles Munroe
#35. I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It is also what I was born to do
tell stories and entertain.
Michelle M. Pillow
#36. I'll just keep going till people get disinterested. It's what I was born to do and thankfully, people have shown an interest. I never do anything to be famous.
Doc Brown
#37. I'm a tough coach, but on the other side of that is me telling them to go all out, "because you're great, because I don't want you to fail, because you were born to do this and you have a dream."
Laurieann Gibson
#38. I just want to continue to do comedy. Comedy, I'm discovering, is my niche. It's what I'm born to do, so I would love to have my own sitcom one day in the future.
Brandy Norwood
#39. Have faith that you are all, my brave lads, born to do great things! Let not the barks of puppies frighten you, no, not even the thunderbolts of heaven, but stand up and work!
Swami Vivekananda
#40. The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to your mythology, this is what he was BORN to do.
Daniel Quinn
#41. The journey toward your Big Dream changes you. In fact, the journey itself is what prepares you to succeed at what you were born to do.
Bruce Wilkinson
#42. Im riding a troll! i was born to do this,and steal stuff, and EAT LOADS!
Eoin Colfer
#43. Do what you were born to do. You just have to trust yourself.
Beyonce Knowles
#44. No one looks for pots of gold, it just happens. Sure, some people are born with an incredible financial ability, and some people are natural salesmen, but creating a business, driving a venture, mobilizing an army, is not something you are born to do - it just happens, by accident.
Ronnie Apteker
#45. My courage will come from knowing I can handle whatever I encounter there -- because I was designed by my creator to not only survive pain and love but also to become whole inside it. I was born to do this. I am a Warrior.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#46. Doing what you were born to do ... That's the way to be happy.
Agnes Martin
#47. Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I feel I was born to do it. And because people tell me I can't do it.
Evelyn Ashford
#48. I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?
Marcus Aurelius
#49. Stop hoping for a completion of anything in life ... Do what you love to do, what you are waiting to do, what you've been born to do, now.
David Deida
#50. Anger is precious. A silverback uses his anger to maintain order and warn his troop of danger. When my father beat his chest, it was to say, Beware, listen, I am in charge. I am angry to protect you, because that is what I was born to do.
Here in my domain, there is no one to protect.
Katherine Applegate
#51. I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
Bette Midler
#52. I'm a spy, Cam. I was born to do this- to be this. It's in my blood. And I will do it until the day I die. It's who I am ... The thing is I don't think you realise is ... it's who you are too.
Ally Carter
#53. There are two things I was born to do. One is to protect Atlas," Jackson began. He paused, tracing a fingertip from my temple to my jaw. "The other is to love you. If you don't believe in anything else, believe in that. Trust me. Trust in me.
M. Leighton
#54. I'm reminded everyday that I was born to do great things, I believe that and when it's my time I shall.
Aeriel Miranda
#55. I'm a born collaborator. This is what I was born to do, really.
Daryl Hall
#56. It's not an accident that musicians become musicians and engineers become engineers: it's what they're born to do. If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
Jack Canfield
#57. I love creating stories, dreaming up characters and breathing life into them. From several generations of Irish storytellers, I think that's what I was born to do.
Linda Conrad
#58. Music is a way of life, it's everything. I play drums and that's what I believe I was born to do.
Elvin Jones
#59. There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.
Harper Lee
#60. I'm not particularly good at 'celebrity'; I don't think it was something I was born to do. I think I can get by as an actor, but I've never been one for the red carpet and don't put a lot of stock in celebrities that are famous for being famous.
Sean Maguire
#62. I'd rather talk to people about their personal spiritual practices or what they believe love is. I'm born to do that. Could I enter into the political realm and dive into that? Sure, but I don't think I would want to do that.
Alanis Morissette
#63. You don't have to be apologetic for your God given gift because people feel threaned or throttled by it. Your duty is to keep doing what you were born to do.
Euginia Herlihy
#65. And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it.
Gunther Schuller
#66. I'm an actor, I'm always looking for work. I was born to do that.
Tommy Lee Jones
#67. Nix had told Emma before she'd left for Europe that on this trip she would 'do that which you were born to do.' Apparently, Emma was born to get kidnapped by a deranged Lykae. Her fate sucked.
Kresley Cole
#68. If you are willing to go an Infinite distance to do what you are born to do, the way is opened, for You.
L.P. Johnson
#69. It's always difficult to see yourself as other people do, but I'm realistic about my appearance. I wasn't born with one of those pretty, pretty faces, so I've never been absorbed with the way I look. I just try to make the most of what I've got.
Alison Jackson
#70. Be deliberate in your choices. We are created to do what we are called to do and what we are born to experience, not what we believe other people expect us to do. Your time is precious.
Julie Connor
#71. A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born ... in poetry.
Cecil Day-Lewis
#72. You're born with some things inside you that will allow you to lead, but I think you have to take the bull by the horns. You have to want that leadership position, and then there are things you can do to develop that.
Tony Dungy
#73. Few people can claim they are born into the right period of history. Most of us have to make do with the times we find ourselves in.
Sally Gardner
#74. Given as much law as that man will be able to do anything and go anywhere, an the only trace of pessimism left in the human prospect today is a faint flavour that one was born so soon.
H.G.Wells
#75. I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very prominent if you reinforce them.
Mayim Bialik
#76. I feel like I was born the day my kids were and that my life before was only there to gain wisdom for them. The point is you do your best. Your very best every day. You do it and you do it for them!
Drew Barrymore
#77. I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction.
Jose Carreras
#78. Whatever circumstances you were born into, whatever family life and education you had or didn't have, you came here to make your dreams come true, and no matter where you are now, you are fully equipped with everything you need to do it!
Rhonda Byrne
#79. Because we were born of old country people in a new land, and, right or wrong, we had not felt equal to those around us, and had had to do a little more than they in everything we did.
Robert Laxalt
#80. The voice gets to the soul of a person more than any other instrument. Because it's the voice. It sings talks, it cries, it laughs, it squeals, it barks, it shouts it whispers, There is no other instrument that can do that. We're born with it.
Bobby McFerrin
#81. If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.
Coco Chanel
#82. Maybe some people were born with the fame gene. Like race or sexual orientation or X-Men mutations, it's simply who you are, and there isn't anything you can do about it. Perhaps it's why some people are drawn to crowds and cameras while others shrink away.
Benjamin Svetkey
#83. If it is true that men have souls that do survive them," he went on, ignoring me, "and if those souls are born again to life, you need not worry that my ghost will haunt you. I'll haunt you in the flesh, instead.
Susanna Kearsley
#84. My dear Watson, you were born to be a man of action. Your instinct is always to do something energetic.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#85. We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#86. We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.
Peter Drucker
#87. Do not fail me again, Raphael. To you she is just an object or course; to me, she is life
Karen Swart
#88. My wife always knows exactly," he said. There was a bit of tobacco on his wet lip. "But that's probably because she only lets me do it twice a year, Valentine's and my birthday, so it's not hard to figure." He stepped out the door and then turned to say, "I got two kids born in
Alice McDermott
#89. But once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#90. I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing.
Judy Holliday
#91. Give us a man of God's own mould
Born to marshall his fellow-men;
One whose fame is not bought and sold
At the stroke of a politician's pen.
Give us the man of thousands ten,
Fit to do as well as to plan;
Give us a rallying-cry, and then
Abraham Lincoln, give us a Man.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#92. All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was born into and it's my duty ... Wanting is not the right word. But those stories about me not wanting to be king are all wrong.
Prince William
#93. We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home.
Sharon Salzberg
#94. Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations come to life on the page. But it is those who choose to do something about this passion that has been ignited inside of them that are true writers.
Brian A. McBride
#95. I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.
Joan Jett
#96. If you believe as I do that you were born to win, you're going to have to find your fears and start facing them.
Zig Ziglar
#97. Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' 'Born Equal' and now 'Small Island' - was another highlight for me. And filming in Jamaica was great, too.
David Oyelowo
#98. The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.
Pietro Aretino
#99. There is a constant amount of weight in the world. If one person loses weight, another must gain it. If somebody dies, an appropriate number of babies are born. Do not stand too close to a person who is losing weight. That fat is just looming, looking for a person to inhabit.
Robin M. Helm
#100. Who born so poor,
Of intellect so mean, as not to know
What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do?
As not to know what God and conscience bade,
And what they bade not able to obey?
Robert Pollok
