Top 100 Not Born Quotes
#2. We are not born focusing. It's an acquired skill that requires initial effort and constant upgrading.
Robert Genn
#4. It is the people who innovate that inspire, and innovation is not born of the status quo.
Michele Jennae
#6. We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.
Mary Antin
#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
#8. Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.
Vladimir Nabokov
#9. 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
#11. A man becomes a Mahadev, only when he fights for good. A Mahadev is not born from his mother's womb. He is forged in the heat of battle, when he wages a war to destroy evil. Har Har Mahadev - All of us are Mahadev.
Amish Tripathi
#12. My fashion is part of who I am, and though I was not born with these clothes on, I was born this way.
Lady Gaga
#13. I can see you is not born last week.
Roald Dahl
#14. Forgiveness is not born out of innocence or ignorance. Forgiveness is born of love.
Rick Yancey
#15. People are not born heroes or villains; they're created by the people around them.
Chris Colfer
#16. The latitude and longitudinal lines of where you are born determine your opportunity in life, and it's not equal. We may have been created equal, but we're not born equal. It's a lot to do with luck and you have to pass that on.
Brad Pitt
#17. Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage jihad by radical imams who represent themselves as legitimate Muslim clergymen.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#18. 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
#20. MAHARAJA-Leaders are not born but are made with ultimate qualities of courage, wisdom, sacrifice and benevolence.
Bhargava Kodavanti
#21. On Immigration policy and reform [Republicans] are on the wrong side of the track ... They would have you believe that if they get into office, they are going to make sure that they are going to get rid of everyone in our society who was not born in America.
Maxine Waters
#22. 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
#24. Works of art are not born in flashes of inspiration but in daily fidelity.
Albert Camus
#25. I don't believe in an art that is not born out of man's need to open his heart.
Edvard Munch
#26. Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
Sydney Smith
#27. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They can only force me who obey a higher law than I ... I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live?
Henry David Thoreau
#28. We are not born into the world. We are born into something that we make into the world.
Michael Talbot
#30. We start trying to be wise when we realize that we are not born knowing how to live, but that life is a skill that has to be acquired,
Alain De Botton
#31. One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.
Deanna Raybourn
#32. You were not born to be ordinary and struggle through life. You were born to excel and win. Your destiny is to live great and above all things ... shine!
Timothy Pina
#33. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin
#34. People are not born bastards. They have to work at it.
Rod McKuen
#35. The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.
Louise Bogan
#36. Self-confidence is not a fixed way of being. People are not born with certain levels of self-confidence, it can be acquired, and it can be lost.
Gudjon Bergmann
#37. I felt my country should do more for its children. Its children are not born gangsters. In fact, they have in them the potential to be heroes because most of the kids who are in these gangs are leaders, very charismatic and good organizers.
Azim Khamisa
#39. We humans are not born alone; joining and being active in a club whose members share your passion for ideas and get your jokes is one of the great joys of life.
Richard Lederer
#40. I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.
Philippe Petit
#41. To become a better you, admit that you were not born for the floor. Refuse to embrace mediocrity anytime anywhere.
Israelmore Ayivor
#43. The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo.
Lillian B. Rubin
#44. Think about it for a second:
Babies are not born prejudice, they are not racist,they don't hate, they don't judge, and are not born believing in christianity, buddhism, sikhism, hinduism, judaism or any other ism.
We, as adults, teach them all these things.
Steven Aitchison
#46. I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The scale and the variety of it are astonishing to someone not born there, and I'm convinced that its energy and generosity have somehow rubbed off on me and affected my writing. For the better.
Laurie Graham
#47. He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#48. There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words I live by.
Bruce Jenner
#49. All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#50. The person who judges you without getting to know you has revealed nothing about you but exposes everything about himself to the world. The prudent one knows that true knowledge is not born out of ignorance but a desire to know before casting judgement.
Crystal Evans
#51. This is the historical reality of the soul, which, unlike the soul represented by Christian theology, is not born in sin and subject to punishment, but is born rather out of methods of punishment, supervision, and constraint.
Michel Foucault
#52. He was born a slave, but he was not born to be a slave.
R.A. Salvatore
#53. Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.
Eric Williams
#54. 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
#55. It can never be, sir; it does not sound likely. Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my species: To imagine such a lot befalling me is a fairy tale - a day-dream.
Charlotte Bronte
#56. We believe we can train any intelligent, quick thinking person to be a trader. We feel traders are made, not born.
Jeff Yass
#57. Every human is not born with the extraordinary capacity to accept himself unconditionally, the kind of acceptance that helps him to survive when the whole world stands in opposition.~ Aarush Kashyap
Kirtida Gautam
#58. Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.
David Gottesman
#59. O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.
William Shakespeare
#60. I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know that Seven Sisters' Road is nothing like Thunder Road, but feelings can't be different, can they?
Nick Hornby
#61. Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
Mario Puzo
#63. We are not born to survive. Only to live.
W.S. Merwin
#64. We were not born with a purpose of marrying and giving life to a son-animals are able to have children too and they can have many more children than we do
Sunday Adelaja
#65. 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
#66. It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
Aristophanes
#67. A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.
Rex Stout
#69. He was one of those who are not born handsome, but develop charming features with age by continuously engaging their brains with intelligent thoughts.
Pawan Mishra
#70. I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms.
William Shakespeare
#71. The holy book in the longest continuous use - the Talmud - commands the observant one to thank his maker every day that he was not born a woman.
Christopher Hitchens
#72. The artist is not born to a life of pleasure. He must not live idle; he has a hard work to perform, and one which often proves a cross to be borne.
Wassily Kandinsky
#73. A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.
Napoleon Hill
#74. I was not born with a hunger to be free, I was born free.
Nelson Mandela
#75. Bad politicians are not Born.They are created.Created by the good people who go on a picnic on voting day.
Avinash Rai
#76. Villains are not born - they are made. And in the case of a Villainess, she is crafted and carved out of the fires of a broken heart and God help the man who thinks to trespass, bruise her further and then survive the encounter.
Renee Bernard
#77. Leaders are not born, but made as a result of hard work
Sunday Adelaja
#78. Family cannot be determined by blood. Family is determined by actions. Family is about trust. Family is about acceptance. Family is about love. True family is earned, not born.
Sarah Brianne
#79. I had to tell people I was not born with a scarf because I came out Iran. People think you came out of your mother with a scarf; they can't imagine that the scarf is not stuck to your head.
Golshifteh Farahani
#80. Champions are made and not born. Champion's feat are acquired and not inherited, earned and not transferred, attained and not deposited
Ikechukwu Joseph
#81. New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.
Roger Von Oech
#82. Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my species: to imagine such a lot befalling me is a fairy tale
a daydream."
"Which I can and will realise. I shall begin today.
Charlotte Bronte
#83. Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
Andre Maurois
#84. A strong woman is not born, she is made!
D. Skies
#86. No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.
Irving Stone
#87. I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.
Michelle Bachelet
#88. Equality ... is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
Hannah Arendt
#89. When they ask you where you're from, tell them your name was fleshed from the toothless mouth of a war-woman. That you were not born but crawled, headfirst - into the hunger of dogs. My son, tell them the body is a blade that sharpens by cutting.
Ocean Vuong
#90. I now believe that fears are not born of darkness; rather, fears are like the stars
always there, but obscured by the glare of daylight.
Irvin D. Yalom
#91. Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
Colin Powell
#92. What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?
Meister Eckhart
#94. Jesus was not born in a manger in central Pennsylvania. He was a man of color. And the fact that we have represented him for centuries literally as a white man speaks to the entire history of white supremacy.
Tim Wise
#95. I realise that you were not born with a predetermined capacity for wonder, as I'd believed. I realise that you fed it up yourself from tiny pieces of the world. I realise it's up to me to follow your example and nurture my own wonder, morsel by morsel by morsel.
Sara Baume
#96. I acknowledge that we are all human and are on a journey. We are not born perfect, mistakes are inevitable.
Aeriel Miranda
#98. I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here.
Elaine Stritch
#99. The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.
Jacques Barzun
#100. I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
Alexander Pope
