Born
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There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.
Mathematicians are born, not made.
We are born of love. Love is our mother.
My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, "If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?" and he answered me with two words: "A pencil". Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.
A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.
True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.
I sometimes feel that I have been born to attract controversy.
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
If we weren't born with anti-social passions — narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious — why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?
We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
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