Top 100 Made Not Born Quotes
#1. Great pilots are made not born ... A man may possess good eyesight, sensitive hands, and perfect coordination, but the end result is only fashioned by steady coaching, much practice, and experience.
Johnnie Johnson
#3. Leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have done before you. You become proficient in your job or skill, and then you become proficient at understanding the motivations and behaviors of other people.
Brian Tracy
#4. Austen suggests that a gentleman is made, not born - and made only through a process of painful self-reflection and discovery.
Emily Auerbach
#5. Readers are made, not born. Few students spring out of the ground fully formed as readers. They need help, and we cannot assume that they will get it from home, but they should always get it from us, their teachers.
Donalyn Miller
#7. Giving her a chance to fly." "They're my wings." "It's her sky. You were made, not born. It's Dani's life.
Karen Marie Moning
#9. We believe we can train any intelligent, quick thinking person to be a trader. We feel traders are made, not born.
Jeff Yass
#12. Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
Colin Powell
#13. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal.
Ray Bradbury
#14. It must be that I am not made to be a dead man, but these places and this discussion seem like a dream, and not a dream dreamed by me but by someone else still to be born.
Jorge Luis Borges
#15. What defines you as a person is not the life you were born in to, but what you made of it.
Shahid Kapoor
#16. We are made by the choices we make. We are defined, not by how or where we were born but what we make out of the "where" and "how"; not much of how we started but more of how we decide to end.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#17. So I think writers are made and not born. But what you choose to write is buried so deeply inside it's like lodestones inside you and sooner or later you come near something that you're supposed to be doing with your life and it's like a magnet. It attracts.
Stephen King
#18. I've seen a baby born. And, ahem, I know what made it. But I'm not telling, you'd never believe me.
N.D. Wilson
#19. Winners are not born, they are self-made.
Pat Summitt
#20. I saw that I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. So I made a choice to use my career as a platform to address the issues of the race I was born into.
Cicely Tyson
#22. In school, the other girls formed alliances which always excluded me. They called me names; I will not repeat them here. They made fun of my unshapely body, my pale skin, my untamed hair. I do not know why I was born this way.
John Boyne
#23. I was born once.
The doctor was late.
I made my own way out.
The nurse slapped my insolence.
"Suffocate me!" I screamed, "I shall not recant.
Robert Skyler
#24. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.
Ray Bradbury
#25. 'The New Black Yoga' originally was born from a film that I had made prior called 'Black Yoga.' And I was living in Berlin at the time, dealing with a lot of anxiety and stress around the project that I was working on, which is not an abnormal thing for me.
Rashid Johnson
#26. There is endless psychological research on evil people. But in my experience the average sociopath has no idea they are wrong. They're born this way, not made.
Kate Moretti
#27. I was three. What did I know? Ronan turned away, lashes low over his eyes, expression hidden, burdened by being born, not made.
Maggie Stiefvater
#28. Political parties are like poets, born, not made.
Henry Ford
#29. I want every young man who sees me to know that I'm not that different from them. I wasn't born into wealth. I wasn't born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes - but I kept at it.
Barack Obama
#30. Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.
Celia Thaxter
#31. 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 Barton
#32. Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.
E. Millicent Sowerby
#33. Contrary to popular myth, werewolves myth, werewolves are born, not made. No matter how many times they bite someone, that person will not turn, though they will probably bleed profusely and will definitely be annoyed.
Molly Harper
#34. Love, my child, is a thing that every mother learns; it is not born with a baby, but made; and for eleven years, I have learned to love you as my son.
Salman Rushdie
#35. The priest is not made. He must be born a priest; must inherit his office. I refer to the new birth-the birth of water and the Spirit. Thus all Christians must became priests, children of God and co-heirs with Christ the Most High Priest.
Martin Luther
#37. Some people are born to suffer. It never stops for them, not for a second ... they are made for it - sustained by it.
Michael Robotham
#39. A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.
Luis Bunuel
#40. I must be honest about the fact that I'm made extremely uneasy by excessive noise, and that I do not care for shouted instructions. If I'd been meant to be a sheep, I reasoned, I'd have been born with wool instead of skin.
Alan Bradley
#42. All great discoveries in experimental physics have been due to the intuition of men who made free use of models, which were for them not products of the imagination but representatives of real things.
Max Born (1953)
Victor J. Stenger
#43. Cities are like gentlemen, they are born, not made. You are either a city, or you are not, size has nothing to do with it. I bet San Francisco was a city from the very first time it had a dozen settlers. New York is "Yokel", but San Francisco is "City at Heart".
Will Rogers
#44. Most criminals are not born; they are made ... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.
William Randolph Hearst
#45. The conformist is not born. He is made. I believe the brainwashing process begins in the schools and colleges.
J. Paul Getty
#46. Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.
Louise Bourgeois
#47. The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
J. Paul Getty
#48. The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.
Francis Of Assisi
#51. She went by the name of Belisa Crepusculario, not because she'd been born with it or baptized it, but because she herself had searched until she found the poetry of 'beauty' and 'twilight' and cloaked herself in it. She made her living selling words.
Isabel Allende
#52. There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no escape from this here that is born, become, made and compounded.
Gautama Buddha
#53. Writers are born, not made. We can hone the craft. We need to try to encourage someone and make a dialogue, suggesting ways to do something differently or how to improve.
Alan Zweibel
#54. Oh, child,' the Father exclaimed, 'whether it's St Martha or that Mary that made the bitter choice, not one of them ever looked more virtuous than you. Why aren't ye born to be a good man's help-meet?
Ford Madox Ford
#55. Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes. It is well to have learned that.
Oscar Wilde
#56. Her heart was beating appreciably faster, and she took more rapid breaths, but she was enjoying herself. Adventuresses are born, not made.
Kerry Greenwood
#57. Everything's borne out of human experience, of course - rejection, humiliation, poverty, whatever. People aren't born bad, no matter how harsh the circumstances. There is a person in there, and that person is not made of ice.
Aidan Gillen
#58. We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land.
Sebastiao Salgado
#59. A self-made man - not of woman born but alchemized, through sheer force of will, by the man himself. This is what I want to be. I want to be a self-made woman. I want to conjure myself out of every sparkling, fast moving thing I can see. I want to be the creator of myself. I'm going to begat myself
Caitlin Moran
#60. Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made.
Paul Engle
#62. Leaders are not born or made - they are self made
Stephen Covey
#64. Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.
Andrea Dworkin
#65. Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.
Lawrence Durrell
#67. Experts say that children are not born criminals, nor pampered parasites. They are made that way by the environment in which they live.
J. Edgar Hoover
#68. A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone and made it a thing of beauty.
Karen Armstrong
#69. Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody.
William Ernest Henley
#70. MAHARAJA-Leaders are not born but are made with ultimate qualities of courage, wisdom, sacrifice and benevolence.
Bhargava Kodavanti
#71. I had always thought that the relationships we make strangers are the hardest and the relationships we have with family the easiest. For me the opposite had been true. The family I was born into was not really my family anymore, while the family I made for myself out of strangers was mine.
Amulya Malladi
#72. Not even God who made us all can kill everybody at once. He kills people one by one, and the more he kills the more people are gonna be born and grow up and go on being born and growing up and mixing, and no son-of-a-bitch is gonna stop 'em!
Jorge Amado
#74. Enzo inherited a throne. Giulietta relied on her royal blood. Queen Maeve rules Beldain because she was born to it.
But true rulers are not born. We are made.
Marie Lu
#75. In sooth I know not why I am so sad.
It wearies me, you say it wearies you;
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn; ...
William Shakespeare
#76. Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it.
Robert Gottlieb
#77. Before you were born but not before you were made, from the time when the moon
and the sun shone as one, the Trefoil Trident has existed to guard the under kingdom world of the Mer.
C.H. Garbutt
#78. Not every one of us are born or made free of our own prisons to the extent of ourselves.
M.F. Moonzajer
#79. It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not. It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future.
Daniel Kehlmann
#80. N sooth, I know not why I am so sad:
It wearies me; you say it wearies you;
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn;
And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,
That I have much ado to know myself.
William Shakespeare
#83. Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones may seem very impressive for quite a long while.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#84. There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says 'Poeta nascitur non fit' the translation of which is - the poet is born, not made.
Joseph Devlin
#85. If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.
Max Born
#86. And you, America, that passion made you. You were not born to
prosperity, you were born to love freedom.
You did not say "en masse," you said "independence." But we
cannot have all the luxuries and freedom also.
Robinson Jeffers
#87. Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
#89. We cross paths with certain people in our tangled lives for a reason. It's not by chance, not an accident but it's on a purpose. You were made to be part of someone's life for it was written long before you were born.- Elizabeth's Quotes
Elizabeth E. Castillo
#90. For certain you can be helped, should you accept it. But as far as being made ... no one can do that. This occurred on the day you were born. An earth day is not a birth day. Own what you create as well as what you break.
T.F. Hodge
#91. The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken.
Carol Bellamy
#92. Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.
John Banville
#93. I really have to wonder who or what made Daddy become this way. Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.
Ellen Hopkins
#95. We are born with our father's names. We are not responsible for their failures. We are responsible for what they made us believe in. That is our only obligation. And it is even then a choice which we may sometimes be wise to ignore.
Warren Eyster
#96. I'm just not the glamour type. Glamour girls are born, not made. And the real ones can be glamorous even if they don't wear magnificent clothes. I'll bet Lana Turner would look glamorous in anything.
Teresa Wright
#97. What could the Lord Jesus Christ have done for you more than he has? Then do not abuse his mercy, but let your time be spent in thinking and talking of the love of Jesus, who was incarnate for us, who was born of a woman, and made under the law, to redeem us from the wrath to come.
George Whitefield
#98. Not a single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#99. I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.
Oscar Wilde
#100. First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.
Ellen Glasgow
