Define Us Quotes

#1. Words define us,' Mom continued, as I struggled to make my clumsy marks look like her elegant script. 'We must protect our knowledge and pass it on whenever we can. If we are ever to become a society again, we must teach others how to remain human.

Julie Kagawa

#2. It's not our mistakes that define us, but what we do about them.

Lindsay J. Pryor

#3. Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.

Robert Graves

#4. Stories are epically important to how we view and interact in the world around us. We define ourselves, our abilities and even our goals by the stories we believe and share. These stories become part of our personal view of our world.

Lyssa Danehy DeHart

#5. I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence. It must be noted that this is a subjective definition, and that this degree of mastery would be individual to each of us.

Chris Matakas

#6. The challenges and how we deal with them: that's what defines us.
Problems don't define us; it's our ability to overcome and transform.

Jared Leto

#7. What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling

Bob Hoskins

#8. We define ourselves by the best that is in us, not the worst that has been done to us.

Edward B. Lewis

#9. Clarke, define resplendent. I think it's shining, sir. Pithy, Clarke, but adequate. McCourt, give us a sentence with pithy. Clarke is pithy but adequate, sir. Adroit, McCourt. You have a mind for the priesthood, my boy, or politics. Think of that.

Frank McCourt

#10. conundrums in biology: this is the fact that our genes, which supposedly define us as a species, but also distinguish you or I or anyone else on the planet from each other, make up only 2 per cent of our DNA. The other 98 per cent had been written off as 'junk';

John Parrington

#11. No matter how significant or life-changing your greatest hit or miss might be, neither even begins to define who you are. Each of us is a product of all our experiences and all our interactions with other people. To cite calculus, we are the area under the curve.

Colin Powell

#12. The Bible views us as recipients of God's perfect love, already charged with an important life mission (seeking first the kingdom of God), and thus the decision to marry, though crucial, won't define us. Nor will who we marry define us.

Gary L. Thomas

#13. All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater or lesser significance, glorified memories, absolute certainties that later turn out to be wrong. Humans are emotional pack rats. These bags define us.

Marya Hornbacher

#14. We are also not what others think of us. Our reputations do not define our true worth. Every person we know has an opinion of us. We drive ourselves crazy wondering what those opinion are and trying to change the ones that aren't favorable.

Toni Sorenson

#15. I miss having a villain. Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act. Nothing arouses a passion for dogma more than a good antagonist. And the more unlikely the better.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#16. The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.

Simon Van Booy

#17. An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

Madeleine L'Engle

#18. We need to define what culture is. Every human being lives within a culture, and culture means "To grow in." It means to literally fall, and this is exactly what I believe is happening all around us right now.

Myles Munroe

#19. Our successes and failures come and go - they neither define us nor do they determine our worthiness. They

Kristin Neff

#20. We define ourselves by comparing ourselves to the things around us. But what if all those things against which you compare yourself weren't there. How tall would you be then?

Danny Scheinmann

#21. Our choices define us: The stars may set us on a given path, but it is we who must decide whether we take it.

Romina Russell

#22. While each of us faces enormous challenges every day, it's not the sins we commit that will define us, its how we respond to them.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#23. RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.

Frances O'Grady

#24. Mistakes don't have to define us. They're how we learn and grow. They show us who and what we don't want to be. It's why they're mistakes.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#25. Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Ivan Turgenev

#26. Like a flame breaking the boundaries to survive underwater, we, too, are something beautiful. We are a substance of our own design. We're more than water. We're more than fire. We're a miracle, a living and breathing combination, with no formula to define us.

Renee Ericson

#27. Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.

Susan Lieberman

#28. Fuck yeah," he answered. "The mistakes we make in life don't define us, Amy. The way we handle 'em after makin' 'em do.

Kristen Ashley

#29. Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.

Lawrence Durrell

#30. It's not the failures in our life that define us, it's the moments when we decide that getting back up is all that matters

Joel Brown

#31. No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

Anna Neagle

#32. I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

Frank Herbert

#33. The world tells us that our pasts define us, trapping us, isolating us and giving us little hope for change or betterment. I say our pasts design us for what's to come and gives us a platform to be heroes in the lives of others.

Shawn M Mcnamara

#34. Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.

Alyson Noel

#35. Our past doesn't define us, rather, it's the courses we take after that tells us who we really are.

Jocelyn Sanchez

#36. I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.

Claire Danes

#37. We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.

Sheryl Sandberg

#38. Humanly speaking, let us define truth, while waiting for a better definition as a statement of facts as they are

Voltaire

#39. But regardless of our circumstances, they do not define us - not unless we give in and let them. Circumstances never determine who we are; they reveal who we are.

Chuck Pagano

#40. We realize
often quite suddenly
that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn't define us, it has no center.

Adyashanti

#41. This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.

Leon Jouhaux

#42. The past doesn't define us. It's what we do here and now, today, that does. This world was built on second chances.

Karina Halle

#43. No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship ... Everything has its time. And everything ends.

Elisabeth Sladen

#44. The Constitution gives us a standard to follow. We cannot define impeachable offenses to a greater degree than the language of the Constitution. But we all agree the issue is the public trust. Our duty is not to punish anyone. And our challenge is to avoid pettiness.

Asa Hutchinson

#45. Life is all about choices. Choices define us, sculpt us. What will your choices say about you?

Sheena Hutchinson

#46. The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power - profound power. The power to define a whole society.

Michael Crichton

#47. Our past, if processed properly, has the ability to refine us for the better, not define or confine us to anything less then we deserve.

Trish Blackwell

#48. Photos tend to organize chaos, to define what we're doing here. It is essential that individuals' voices depict the world around us, as we are increasingly controlled by large institutions, large companies and large systems.

Martin Parr

#49. Darkness scares us. We yearn for the comfort of light as it provides shape and form, allowing us to recognize and define what's before us. But what is it we're afraid of really? Not the darkness itself, but the truth we know hides within.

Emily Thorne

#50. To define, is to select from among all the properties of a thing, those which shall be understood to be designated and declared by its name; and the properties must be well known to us before we can be competent to determine which of them are fittest to be chosen for this purpose.

John Stuart Mill

#51. it's not the obstacles in our life that define us. It's the grace we display when overcoming them.

Tracy Brogan

#52. It is highly unlikely that we, who can know, determine, and define the natural essences of all things surrounding us, which we are not, should ever be able to do the same for ourselves
this would be like jumping over our own shadows.

Hannah Arendt

#53. you begin to notice all the props surrounding these people, and you begin to understand how props define us and comfort us, and show us what we value and what we need, and who we think we are.

Anne Lamott

#54. In solitude, at last, we're able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined - by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence

Richard Rohr

#55. Let's never stop asking questions. Questions give us a harbor to remember where we once lived mentally. They remind us of the possibilities that can be born out of thoughts and musings, and they link together pattern that define our lives.

Luci Swindoll

#56. Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.

Kathleen Norris

#57. When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#58. We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

Jimmy Carter

#59. Pain does not define us, neither does joy; our deepest definition is independent of our experiences.

Bryant McGill

#60. Define us as a sex.
LORD ILLINGWORTH Sphinxes without secrets.

Oscar Wilde

#61. Decisions are made in life, you make them and you stand by them, they're what make us who we are, they define us in the end" Paradoxically a Woman by T. Darshan

T. Darshan

#62. Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.

James C. Collins

#63. Check other sources before believing mainstream media.Seek the truth.

Anne-Rae Vasquez

#64. Religion does not define God's character God reveals it to us in His word and in person, in His Son Jesus Christ.

Jonah Books

#65. When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

Brene Brown

#66. It is our courage which defines us, not our constraints

Gyan Nagpal

#67. We aren't who our pasts say we are. Damage doesn't define us. WE DEFINE OURSELVES.

Cynthia Eden

#68. I like to define networking as cultivating mutually beneficial, give-and-take, win-win relationships ... The end result may be to develop a large and diverse group of people who will gladly and continually refer a lot of business to us, while we do the same for them.

Bob Burg

#69. Relationships help us to define who we are and what we can become. Most of us can trace our successes to pivotal relationships.

Donald O. Clifton

#70. I'm convinced that if we don't define ourselves, other people will do it for us, and inaccurately.

Hasan M. Elahi

#71. In other words, our opinions and our thoughts and feelings, anything we experience, need not define us forever.

Nicholas Sparks

#72. We define ourselves in relationship to Christ: who we are is how we relate to him. The Son, sent by the Father, lives in us through the Holy Spirit, and we can't truly meet ourselves until we meet him.

Adam S. McHugh

#73. Instead of giving in to cynicism and division, let's move forward with the confidence and optimism and unity that define us as a people.

Barack Obama

#74. We're not words, Henry, we're people.
Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#75. our trials do not define us, rather they refine us.

Jeanna Ellsworth

#76. Because: if our secrets define us, as opposed to the face we show the world: then the painting was the secret that raised me above the surface of life and enabled me to know who I am. And it's there: in my notebooks, every page, even though it's not.

Donna Tartt

#77. There are those of us who believe that under certain conditions the cruelest thing you can do to people you love is to force them to live. There are those of us who define living not by whether the heart beats and the lungs lift but whether the spirit is there, whether the music box plays.

Anna Quindlen

#78. Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's achievement in those arts and handicrafts whereby he has, in time past, signalized his passage from barbarism to civilization.

Amelia B. Edwards

#79. In another time,
What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted
To say that language is error, and all things are wronged
By representation. The self, we shall say, can never be
Seen with a disguise, and never be seen without one.

Mark Strand

#80. People need a monster they can believe in.
A true and horrible enemy. A demon to define themselves against. Otherwise, it's just us versus us.

Chuck Palahniuk

#81. We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past "weird" and "strange" and "goofy." Her ways knocked us off balance.

Jerry Spinelli

#82. Later in life, one of the compensations is gliding effortlessly into focus in a thing. Since it is who we are, anything that is not the focus or supportive thereof is just not us. Even outside issues, when they arise, are interesting in that they only help define the focus more clearly.

Twyla Tharp

#83. Our strengths define us, but our weaknesses limit us.

Katie Kacvinsky

#84. Maybe it's not the doors that open in our lives, but the doors that close that define us. That guide us. Because they force us to move on. Instead of thinking about what we lose, look at what we can gain.

Katie Kacvinsky

#85. Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose." I

Shaun David Hutchinson

#86. ...we are our flaws, but they don't have to define us as either good or evil.

Erica Crouch

#87. Choices. We all make them, sometimes more than once. Sometimes it's the choices we make over and over that define us, but more often it's the choices we don't make.

Megan Hart

#88. Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly

Sally Kempton

#89. Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glance from her friend: "They still define us in terms of relationships with men, even the best of them.

Doris Lessing

#90. OUr past doesn't define us. It prepares us.

Maralee McKee

#91. Our talents don't define us any more than our faults.

Marty Rubin

#92. The choices we make in our life don't have to define us. It's what we learn from them that's important.

A Meredith Walters

#93. None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.

Stephen Covey

#94. Nets are generally defined as devices for capturing something. In a more narrow but more important sense, we might define a net as anything that entices or prevents us from following the call of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#95. It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered down by mistake. The older we get the more willing we are to follow those, to surprise ourselves.

Anna Quindlen

#96. We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it and guard it and hold it forever inaccessible.

Tim O'Brien

#97. If we deny the need for thought, Moneo, as some do, we lose the powers of reflection; we cannot define what our senses report. If we deny the flesh, we unwheel the vehicle which bears us. But if we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe. It was emotions which I missed the most.

Frank Herbert

#98. The preservation of our national security and the laws that define us as the United States of America demand that we understand the intersection of the two - indeed, how they reinforce one another.

John O. Brennan

#99. To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.

Clarence Thomas

#100. Where do you draw the line between actions carried out due to an internal need and actions that were nothing more than a slim version of one ceremony or another that help us define our emotions?

Yoav Blum