One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.
We are born sad and die sad, but in the meantime, we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.
Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
We are not born only for ourselves.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born.
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.
To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but with apprenticeship, experience, knowledge of cause, and perhaps with will.
You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
Till ye have battled with great grief and fears/And borne the conflict of dream-shattering years/Wounded with fierce desire and worn with strife/Children, ye have not lived: for this is life.”
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
Man is born to live and not to prepare to
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
Everything is music for the born musician.
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
We are born of love; Love is our mother.
Every existing being is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.
Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
“Do you realize that we're meteorites; almost as soon as we're born, we have to disappear?”
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.