Top 100 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. We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core.
Without them, we are empty.
Daisy Whitney
#4. We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.
Mary E. DeMuth
#5. Failure does not define us, it refines us.
Steve Knox
#6. I don't think it's our pasts that define us, and it's not even our life's final destination. It's everything we do in between, the actual living, that creates who we are.
Jay McLean
#7. 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
#9. We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Virginia Satir
#10. It is not those events outside of our control which we should allow to define us. Instead, the definition of who we choose to be is dictated by how we deal with these outside events within ourselves.
Tony C. Skye
#11. 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
#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
#15. All we have are our words and our actions. They are what define us. And one without the other is no good. You need to utilize both to make true change. Within yourself. Internally and externally.
Noah Nichols
#16. The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.
Simon Van Booy
#17. It's our scars that define us, Sara. Diego has to live life to appreciate life." "Yes." A knot forms in my stomach at the idea that I still don't know how deeply Chris's scars define him.
Lisa Renee Jones
#18. To be free to roam our own consciousness and be responsible for ourselves, a letting go process is required. We have to let go of how others define us; what damaging messages remain from childhood; how others define our relationship with the creator; and what expectations they may have for us.
David W. Earle
#19. What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.
Bob Goff
#20. There are tenses that define us now: past tense, back then; future tense, not yet. We live in the small window between them, the space we've only recently come to think as still, and really it's no smaller than anyone else's window.
Margaret Atwood
#21. Our successes and failures come and go - they neither define us nor do they determine our worthiness. They
Kristin Neff
#22. Christianity is not a promise to enjoy a life without pain nor to be given a shortcut through it. It is a promise that pain, sorrow, sin - ours and others' - will not swallow us, destroy us, define us, or have the final word. Jesus has won the victory. And in him so have we.
Stasi Eldredge
#23. 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
#24. I've realized now that our world doesn't define us. We define our world. And I hope you'll fill yours with as much light and happiness as you can.
Shannon Messenger
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. Then they'd be wrong. It's only our deeds that make us evil, Tanner; they're what define us, nothing else, not our intentions or feelings. But what are a few bad deeds compared to a life, especially the kinds of lives we can live now?
Alastair Reynolds
#28. 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
#29. Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
Ivan Turgenev
#30. 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
#31. Once we know our elements we know our strengths, but that is nothing compared with our weaknesses. Our strengths define us, but our weaknesses limit us. It's a constant tug of war in ourselves.
Katie Kacvinsky
#32. It's not our mistakes that define us. It's the lessons we learn that show our true character.
Cassia Leo
#33. Laughter is the evidence that we're still here, the proof that our tragedies will not define us forever. Laughter is the language of the survivor.
Josh James Riebock
#34. To be an aritst is not to wait for others to define us, but to define ourselves, claim our lives ...
Jan Phillips
#35. Football isn't who we are, it doesn't necessarily define us. It's part of our life and it always will be, but football won't define us. Excellence does.
Eric Dickerson
#36. The past is a tricky thing and we let it define us when we should embrace the here and now, and all that's still coming. You need to let yourself live from a place of love, not from a place of fear over the things you can't control.
Jennifer Farwell
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.
Merle Shain
#40. For better or worse, our pasts and experiences are what define us. But they don't have to rule us. In time, all hurts can be forgiven. It's only when you add to them that they can't. - Nero
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#42. 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
#43. Our past doesn't define us, rather, it's the courses we take after that tells us who we really are.
Jocelyn Sanchez
#44. 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
#46. Sometimes the moments that challenge us the most, define us.
Deena Kastor
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. Life is all about choices. Choices define us, sculpt us. What will your choices say about you?
Sheena Hutchinson
#52. Brokenness is just like beauty; it's something we wear and carry, and if we let it define us, it will. But we are not our beauty or our brokenness, because souls are not made of beauty or brokenness. Souls are made of something permanent. Souls are made of truth.
Lauren Miller
#53. Memories no matter how small or inconsequential are the pages that define us.
Sarah Winman
#54. Because it's not the things we write about that define us. It's the things we fear writing about.
Eden Connor
#55. How many of us allow others to define us and thus we become what they want us to be, not what we should be or could be?
Lisa Renee Jones
#56. What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.
Mitt Romney
#57. it's not the obstacles in our life that define us. It's the grace we display when overcoming them.
Tracy Brogan
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. Strength of body. Strength of mind. strength of personality. All this things lie within a person. They define us. They determine our limits.
Patrick Rothfuss
#61. Its our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.
Karen Marie Moning
#62. beginners when it came to inner landscapes of beauty that would anchor and nourish them on the inside, beyond work, in the intimate spaces that in the end define us all.
Krista Tippett
#63. Pain does not define us, neither does joy; our deepest definition is independent of our experiences.
Bryant McGill
#64. Define us as a sex.
LORD ILLINGWORTH Sphinxes without secrets.
Oscar Wilde
#65. Kinder the enemy who must malign us Than the smug friend who will define us
Anna Wickham
#66. We're fascinated by things that scare us, and one of the things that scares us is violence. Violence exists. It's a real part of our lives. We are obsessed with what we're scared of, but it certainly doesn't define us.
Ethan Hawke
#67. 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
#68. I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.
Christina Baker Kline
#69. Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for.
Michael Wilbon
#70. I wish I was like that. More carefree."
"Anyone can be. People aren't carved out of marble. We're all works in progress. The trick is to define ourselves, rather than let outside influences define us.
J.A. Konrath
#71. What I've always taken away from his words is the sense that we all have something that confines us, that seeks to define us, label us, belittling us in the process, shortchanging our potential. Can it be that that is our sanctuary, our refuge, our way to liberty?
Noorilhuda
#72. We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed.
Selma James
#73. The bad things don't define us, it's what we make of them that does. Turn a negative into a positive, that kind of thing.
Micalea Smeltzer
#74. When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.
Brene Brown
#75. Those are the things that define us. The way we love the people around us, and the choices we make to show it. That's what makes us who we are.
Rebecca Serle
#77. We aren't who our pasts say we are. Damage doesn't define us. WE DEFINE OURSELVES.
Cynthia Eden
#78. It may be our actions that define us, but it is our reaction that changes the course of things.
Dianna Hardy
#79. But at a certain point in our lives, we cannot passively allow our upbringing to define us. We must choose it or choose other.
Jon Skovron
#80. In other words, our opinions and our thoughts and feelings, anything we experience, need not define us forever.
Nicholas Sparks
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. When we deny our stories and disengage from tough emotions, they don't go away; instead, they own us, they define us.
Brene Brown
#84. Ideas define us, our past, our present, and most importantly, our future.
P.W. Cross
#85. We all have to live with our past, but it doesn't have to define us.
Nalini Singh
#87. Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.
R.J. Palacio
#88. 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
#89. Technological advances happen so quickly, and integrate themselves so seamlessly into the fabric of our existence, that we hardly note their arrival anymore, let alone the ways in which they come to dominate and define us.
Ron Currie Jr.
#90. The transition will not be easy, ended the decree, and it will not be without cost. But we are not cowards to hide from the powers that define us. We are Psy and we are capable of greatness.
It is time to step out of the dark.
Nalini Singh
#91. There are moments in life that define us, set us on a new course that we had never even dreamed of. Sometimes those moments begin when an unexpected person finds their voice. Sometimes it begins when we decide to listen." (Chapter 1 of Without a Voice)
Chris Pepple
#92. Tristan was silent for a few moments, looking at the leaves before them. "Life isn't about the past and the future. It's about today." He paused. "It's about five minutes from now and two seconds ago. It's moments, you know? Not years. Years aren't what define us.
Chelsea Fine
#93. New Yorker, the collection would, in many ways, define us as a couple.
Nicholas Sparks
#94. 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
#95. We must not allow the conformity of our society to define us.
Debasish Mridha
#97. 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
#99. Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.
Hal Duncan
#100. ...we are our flaws, but they don't have to define us as either good or evil.
Erica Crouch
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