A Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Daniel J. Boorstin

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Daniel J. Boorstin
American - Historian
October 1, 1914 - February 28, 2004

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

William Shakespeare

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'

Shaquille O'Neal

Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.

Robin Williams

Some are born great, others achieve greatness.

William Shakespeare

Some people are born great and some have greatness thrust upon them

Monica Lewinsky

Some are born leaders, some achieve leadership, and some have leadership thrust upon them. Which of these are you, or would you rather not bother?

Maurice Flanagan

Born to be some body." You were born to be some body, maybe a vet, maybe a hero, maybe a care giver. What ever it is you were born to be some thing special and if you believe you can achieve

Justin Bieber

[S]ome people are self-starters, and some people are born lazy. Some people are born victims. Some people are just born to be slaves. Some people are born to put up with somebody else making every decision for them.

Rush Limbaugh

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

Dick Francis

With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group.

Amish Tripathi

People see police officers and think they're such bad people. We have some who can be some bad people. But we have some great ones out there, that are here to protect us.

Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

We cannot escape the conclusion that because of performance in the pre-existence some of us are born as Chinese, some as Japanese, some as Indians, some as Negroes, some as Americans, some as Latter-day Saints. These are rewards and punishments, fully in harmony with His established policy in dealing with sinners and saints, rewarding all according to their deeds

Mark E. Petersen

As a kid, I was a paperboy, and the walls of the place where we picked up our papers were plastered with pictures of former paperboys - some sports figures, some presidents, some military officers.

Richard Cohen

The beautiful in life... Some talk of it in poetry, Some grow it from the soil, Some build it in a steeple, Some show it through their toil. Some breathe it into music, Some mold it into art, Some shape it into bread loaves... Some hold it in their hearts.