You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
Zig Ziglar

I believe that every person is born with talent.
Maya Angelou

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.
Maya Angelou

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Vince Lombardi

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Vince Lombardi

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.
George Carlin

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon Hill

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
John F. Kennedy

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.
Groucho Marx

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.
Groucho Marx

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
Groucho Marx

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
William Shakespeare

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
Henry David Thoreau

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
Henry David Thoreau