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.

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

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

Why was I born with such contemporaries?
Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

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

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

So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic.
Steve Jobs

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.
Steve Jobs

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

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

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
Frank Howard Clark