Top 100 Quotes About Birthright
#1. If your personality is negative, it means that you do not have the confidence in God and in yourself that is your birthright.
Norman W. Walker
#2. Evil is boring. Cynicism is pointless. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Hopelessness is self-indulgent. On the other hand: Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Chronic ecstasy is a learnable skill.
Rob Brezsny
#3. The human birthright includes the possibility of an easy death at extreme old age if we are healthy. Alternatively, we may experience a lot of disease, but with medical intervention probably live almost as long, suffering from suboptimum health all the way through. It's our choice.
Steve Solomon
#4. Confusion and suffering may be our birthright, but wisdom and happiness are available.
Sam Harris
#5. When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes, as it were, a kind of cosmic outlaw, having neither the completeness nor integrity of the animal nor the birthright of a true humanity.
Henry Beston
#6. The quality of rhetoric emanating from the psychedelic community must improve radically. If it does not, we will forfeit the reclamation of our birthright and all opportunity for exploring the psychedelic dimension will be closed off.
Terence McKenna
#7. Ignore the voice that scorns and ridicules to ensure it does not mold you. Stifling subtleties like these, if unchecked, are oppressive. Freedom is a love supreme birthright, not a privilege to be governed by any other.
T.F. Hodge
#8. This is the real task before us: to reassert our commitment as a nation to a law higher than our own, to renew our spiritual strength. Only by building a wall of such spiritual resolve can we, as a free people, hope to protect our own heritage and make it someday the birthright of all men.
Ronald Reagan
#10. You are chosen to be faithful women of God in our day, to stand above pettiness, gossip, selfishness, lewdness, and all other forms of ungodliness. Recognize your divine birthright as daughters of our Heavenly Father.
Howard W. Hunter
#11. Be bold, he says. Be brave. Be true to your birthright, what you recognize in your heart. I
Wallace Stegner
#12. Power never rests upon those who deserve it. Power is given to those who reach to take it, and claimed by those who will stop at nothing to fulfill what they believe is their birthright.
Illuminatiam
#13. Claiming our birthright means living in beauty inwardly regardless of our outer circumstances. It means cultivating the qualities coded in our hearts.
Lori Cash Richards
#14. I thought this life of thoughtful liberalism was my birthright, too. Before I understood that my generation was to be born in interesting times.
Maureen F. McHugh
#15. Self-empowerment is our birthright.
Miss Dee
#16. Amend Constitution to remove aliens' birthright citizenship.
Ron Paul
#17. HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.
Rob Brezsny
#18. Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.
Mark McKinnon
#19. of the birthright of Lord Rudra's successors.' Shiva was getting increasingly uncomfortable. 'Now that Lord Rudra's successor is here, it is time for him to ascend the throne of Kashi,' continued Athithigva. 'It will be my honour to serve you, My Lord.' Shiva almost choked on a combination of
Amish Tripathi
#20. He's the sort of man who wants power. He doesn't have it, but he thinks he's entitled to it by birthright. He's incapable of earning what he wants, so he wants what he hasn't earned. The sort of man who, if he wants something, thinks it's all right to take it.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#21. Liz wrenched her hand from his grasp, and this time, she stepped boldly forward. "I will stay and Michael can go." Her voice did not waiver as she pronounced her own death sentence. No matter what happened to her, she knew she couldn't let him die.
Willow Cross
#22. You are worthy of love and you deserve to be happy. You have these beautiful qualities and many more because you are living the gift of a human incarnation. My hope is that you will embrace these truths and your birthright to live a life abundant in love, joy, and celebration.
David Simon
#23. It is our birthright to uncover the soul - to remove the layers of fear or shame or apathy or cynicism that conceal it.
Elizabeth Lesser
#24. Thus Esau despised his birthright. In disposing of it he felt a sense of relief. Now his way was unobstructed; he could do as he liked. For this wild pleasure, miscalled freedom, how many are still selling their birthright to an inheritance
Ellen G. White
#25. Don't let anyone or anything rob you of the beauty and meaning at the heart of life. It's your birthright gift.
Parker J. Palmer
#26. Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.
Joseph Sobran
#27. Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#28. I sensed then, and later formulated the conviction that wellness and potential are every child's birthright. And I'm quite sure that society is served when children have it.
Stephen Gallup
#29. The stain of place hangs on not as a birthright but as a sort of artifice, a bit of cosmetic.
Elizabeth Hardwick
#30. I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
Terence McKenna
#31. It is your birthright to discover your sacred contract. It will guide you to find your divine destiny.
Caroline Myss
#33. The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to the Common good of them all, in whom the power yet remaines fundamentally, and cannot be takn from them, without a violation of thir natural birthright.
John Milton
#34. Man is entitled by birthright to a share of the earth's produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#35. We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing ... a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
Plotinus
#36. I'm American to the core. So please forgive me if I say some foolish things when I'm overseas. It's my birthright." The Best Way--El Camino de Santiago (2012)
Bill Walker
#37. Without meditation, and without a relationship to your mind, you fail to use the power of the mind. You fail to rely on your self. You complicate your approach. You do not use the beautiful designs given to you by birthright in this body, that link the effectiveness of body, mind, soul and you.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#38. The disappearance of your person is not your disappearance, remember; on the contrary, it is your appearance. As your person disappears, your personality falls away; your individuality, your individual arises. To have a personality is hypocrisy. To be an individual is your birthright.
Rajneesh
#39. Creativity is our birthright. It is an integral part of being human, as basic as walking, talking and thinking.
John Daido Loori
#40. Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.
Immanuel Kant
#41. I really want to believe. I find the goodies offered by Christianity extremely attractive. But I am damned (again!) if I am going to sell my evolutionary birthright for a mess of religious pottage.
Michael Ruse
#43. In the U.S. and Canada, 50% of the young leadership of all the organizations like AIPAC and Hillel are Birthright alumni.
Charles Bronfman
#44. If you would be a magician, honor the Earth. Honor life. Love. Know that magic is the birthright of every human being, and wisely use it.
Scott Cunningham
#45. He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
Samuel Butler
#46. The object isn't to be perfect. The goal isn't to hold back until you've created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.
Seth Godin
#47. The desire for the edited life crosses generations, but the young consider it their birthright.
Sherry Turkle
#48. It's your birthright to be snarky. Own it. Live it. Rejoice in it.
Lauren Myracle
#49. But any creature has life. Man is special and unique among the beasts because we have the ability to reason. I think that is our Divine gift. I feel the Gods are likely angered by any man who refuses to claim the Divine birthright of a rational mind.
W.A. Hoffman
#50. They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his 'minimum sustenance' his food, his clothes, his shelter with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive it from whom.
Ayn Rand
#51. It takes a warrior's courage to acknowledge that your point of view matters, that your truth matters, that your gifts matter, and that your presence on this earth matters. You don't have to earn this right; it's yours as part of your birthright.
Debbie Ford
#52. Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.
George H. W. Bush
#54. I want you to know that it is pleasure, not pain, that is your birthright.
Christiane Northrup
#55. Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.
Jose Marti
#56. All work is an act of philosophy. And when men will learn to consider productive work - and that which is its source - as the standard of their moral values, they will reach that state of perfection which is the birthright they lost..
Ayn Rand
#57. As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us.
Anne Rice
#58. Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright. Not so China. It was thwarted in its attempt to hold the 2000 Olympics, which, as a result of American-led pressure, was awarded to Sydney.
Martin Jacques
#61. You see, real freedom is something tangible- it's the American's birthright- but it is also something that can be taken away at a moment's notice.
Alex Gilvarry
#62. We will never be truly healthy, satisfied, or fulfilled if we live apart and alienated from the environment from which we evolved.
Birthright: People and Nature in the Modern World
Stephen R. Kellert
#63. It's what I tell my daughters: Know that your birthright is to shine your light, and don't let anybody deny you of that right. Take responsibility for your life.
Kimberly Elise
#64. The woman born to physical subjection and degradation can never seek or use knowledge as her birthright. Never till she holds her sex in honor, as man holds his, can she be his equal, even in her own realm.
Mary C. Ames
#65. Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.
George Bernard Shaw
#66. Being an American is more than a birthright. It is something we must prove worthy everyday, failure to do so insults those who have sacrificed all on our behalf.
Mark W. Boyer
#67. You have a personal birthright to believe in a God-given mission for your life.
Steven Furtick
#68. You need only one thing in the world. It is not money. It is not fame. It is not even food. All you need in the world is hope. As long as you have that, you have everything. This is your birthright that you should never lose. If you keep hope, all your other necessities will come soon enough.
Ilchi Lee
#69. The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#70. When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.
Brene Brown
#71. True freedom requires taking responsibility for your own life. That frightens the hell out of too many people. They prefer to have Big Brother holding a safety net for them, and they'll sell their own birthright and their children's as well to keep it.
F. Paul Wilson
#72. It was never a name I would have chosen for myself, but with time I accepted the title as if it were my birthright.
Brittany Comeaux
#73. to be a Cubs fan is both a birthright and a curse.
Jason Diamond
#75. To be loved is the birthright of every mewling babe, but, once grown, a man is not assured of such affection.
Katherine Marsh
#76. Rigorously considered, our only natural birthright is to die.
Thomas Ligotti
#77. If God is really my Father, I have rights, and He has responsibilities. I hereby claim my birthright to be protected, educated, and provided for!
Stefan Emunds
#78. It is your birthright to have a life of meaning and purpose. Whether or not the people in your life have consistently celebrated your incarnation, you deserve to celebrate your existence.
David Simon
#79. To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual pleasure as possible into one's mouth more or less continuously. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright
Bill Bryson
#81. You know that American dream and American spirit of innovation we always talk about? Turns out, the bulk of it was built by people who came to America from somewhere else, not people born American. We have no birthright or natural lock on these things.
Sarah Lacy
#82. I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#83. Clean water, the essence of life and a birthright for everyone, must become available to all people now.
Jean-Michel Cousteau
#84. Know that success and inner peace are your birthright, that you are a child of God and as such that you're entitled to a life filled with joy, love and happiness.
Wayne Dyer
#85. The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
Anna Julia Cooper
#86. Animal rights are not a gift we give to animals. They are a birthright we have taken from them.
Ryan Phillips
#87. God expects every Christian to live a holy life. But holiness is not only expected; it is the promised birthright of every Christian.
Jerry Bridges
#88. I don't want to be treated like I came from another planet or something or was somehow born with some weird birthright or super power. I don't view myself that way. I am a normal guy, picking up the crap from the dog and scraping the BBQ and having a beer and fixing the shed out back.
Chris Hadfield
#89. I hope thou shalt never retreat beneath the ground. The sun is thy inheritance. The sky is thy birthright. Stay here, my boy, and with the conversation of mankind. rejoice in the light.
M T Anderson
#91. We can all influence the life force. The tools and strategies of healing are so innate, so much a part of a common human birthright, that we believers in technology pay very little attention to them. But they have lost none of their power.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#92. It is your birthright to live a life abundant in love. Make the commitment today to open your heart and let your love flow.
David Simon
#93. As a country, we've given up our birthright for even less than bread and pottage. We've given it up for nothing - although I'm sure some people somewhere are richer now.
Octavia E. Butler
#94. If a man looks upon any other man and estimates that man as less than himself, then he is stealing from the other. He is stealing the other's birthright - that of equality.
Neville Goddard
#95. Creation is the highest form of Divinity, and your birthright. Truth is, you are creating all the time. The central question in your life is whether you are doing this consciously or unconsciously.
Neale Donald Walsch
#96. Across all religions in the United States, people 18-30 are more spiritual than before, but they don't like organized religion. What sets Birthright apart is that no one's hitting on you to be Jewish in any particular way, and you can define Jewish any way you want.
Charles Bronfman
#97. Madness is born in the blood. It is my birthright.
Grant Morrison
#98. By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.
H.G.Wells
#99. We come here (literally) reaching for intimacy and love. But it seems soon after our arrival, we're made to believe that they're luxuries not necessities.
Rashod Ollison
#100. Most men probably wouldn't want to live the lives of bonobos. They're constantly clinging to their mothers' apron strings. They lack the ability to make decisions about their own fates, something that we and male chimpanzees practically consider our birthright.
Frans De Waal
