Defines Us Quotes

#1. Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides within whereas it is that inner beauty that really defines you and who you truly are

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#2. The past defines us as much as the present. By never knowing my past, I was never sure of who I was. Because mine was missing, I never felt whole.

Arlene J. Chai

#3. It's the way we deal with what Fate hands us that defines who we are.

Lisa Graff

#4. It is not triumph which defines a man, but tragedy. Triumph always brings out the best in men, but tragedy shows us what we are made of.

Jocelyn Murray

#5. We're all a little broken, it's how we feed our brokenness that defines us; some you wouldn't believe ever broke and some you will see never grew through the break but one thing certain, everyone is a little broken, it's how we feed our brokenness that defines us.

Nikki Rowe

#6. Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny.

R. R. Reno

#7. Sometimes our emotions rule us. How we handle the consequences ... defines us.

Kat Bastion

#8. It's how we deal with the things that hurt us most that defines us.

Jay Crownover

#9. 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

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

Bob Hoskins

#11. You don't have a monopoly on pain or loss. It's a level playing field - we all lose - we all grieve. It's what remains afterwards that defines us. Guilt is the poison we pump into our own veins. It's self-inflicted torture.

R.W. Patterson

#12. It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.

Yuri Milner

#13. What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone's library is like peeking into their DNA

Guillermo Del Toro

#14. Time is the central mystery of our existence. It confines and defines us in many ways.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#15. Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species.

Camille Paglia

#16. Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.

Yuri Milner

#17. We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.

Angela Merkel

#18. We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great.

Salvatore J. Cordileone

#19. There is nothing called 'Extraordinary', it is just the way the World defines an 'ordinary' man or woman , who has recognized his own 'power to achieve' the IMPOSSIBLE ! Let us be ORDINARY, but an 'aware' ordinary , aware of our own selves !

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#20. It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

Jane Austen

#21. What defines us is how well we rise after we fall.

Zig Ziglar

#22. If blood alone is what defines us, no child born is born in freedom.

Nalini Singh

#23. Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.

Yuri Milner

#24. We all have to escape from this thing called life sometimes. Maybe we use substances to do it. Maybe we use religion. Maybe we use exercise. Maybe we use anger. But we all have to do it. *How* we do it is what defines us.

Dan Pearce

#25. What we have, what we go through - defines us. Makes us. Changes us, whether for better or worse, it crafts who we are.

Ronie Kendig

#26. and most profoundly personal philosophical inquiry that we can undertake. It is the question that defines us as human beings. The novel begins precisely at noon on July 20,

Thornton Wilder

#27. Equality, absolutely, that's what defines us. It's what makes us great. If it doesn't sit well with your religion, let your God sort it out in the end, but that's us. We're equal

Brad Pitt

#28. Where there is true variety, there will be inevitable 'inequality' - that is simply the result of human nature and the pluralism that defines us as a people.

Cory Bernardi

#29. Life is a broken thing. It's what we do with the pieces that defines us.

Corban Addison

#30. And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.

Mitt Romney

#31. It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.

Conan O'Brien

#32. Our use of words defines us.

Melissa Harker Ridenour

#33. What often appears to destroy us is what eventually defines us and takes us to a better place.

Mike Coe

#34. Life isn't always predictable. But it's how we survive the bad weather that defines us.

K.K. Allen

#35. 'V-Wars' is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human.

Jonathan Maberry

#36. Reading surrounds us, labels us, defines us.

Rich Gold

#37. Our happiness lies in this difference, in the thing that defines us, that makes us unique

Anonymous

#38. We are not defined by our species any more than our nationality or our gender. What we do , our choices, that's what defines us.

Carrie Jones

#39. It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do.

Oprah Winfrey

#40. We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and time is supposed to measure history, isn't it? But if we can't understand time, can't grasp its mysteries of pace and progress, what chance do we have with history
even our own small, personal, largely undocumented piece of it?

Julian Barnes

#41. Never give up hope, that family can be a great source of love, that the eternal inner spirit lives on even when the human body is frail and through positive thinking it can overcome incredible odds. Yes, all of these. But also, that love for others defines us.

Peter Benn

#42. A child's body is so much a part of who they are; maybe because we can hold a little boy in our arms. We can hold the whole of him. But when we grow too large to be held our body no longer defines us

Rosamund Lupton

#43. As Hegel defines it: "Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us." ... Reason is the negation of the negative ... Reason, and Reason alone, contains its own corrective.

Herbert Marcuse

#44. No one can be responsible for where or how we each begin. No one has the freedom to do anything or everything, and all choices bring consequences. What we choose to do next, though, how to spend our resources or attention or effort, this is what defines us.

Seth Godin

#45. What is suffering? I'm not sure what it is, but I know that suffering is the name we give to the origin of all the sighs, screams, and groans - small and large, crude and multifaceted - that concern us. The word defines our gaze even more than what we are looking at.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#46. The beautiful courage of us, the hope that defines our kind, is that we go on, no matter how much life wounds us. We walk. We face the sea and the wind and the salted truth of death, and we go on.

Gregory David Roberts

#47. Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find it odd that not much is written about it. We talk about relationships, damage, adultery, revolution, but we don't talk about work.

Neel Mukherjee

#48. I know what you are, but I also know who you are too. And the 'who' is the part that defines us.

Amalie Howard

#49. What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.

John Piper

#50. What defines us is not our ability to never let them break us-what defines us is not letting them own us.

Sara Raasch

#51. Everyone has their weaknesses. What defines us is being able to acknowledge them and still find our strengths too.

Rebecca Espinoza

#52. It isn't what we lose that defines us. It's what we refuse to release." Janeway

Kirsten Beyer

#53. So many times, in our despair, we see our pain as something that will never end. In fact, this often defines our moments of despair: when we believe that our pain contains the rest of us. In contrast, there is this sense of peace to work toward: the belief that our life contains our pain.

Mark Nepo

#54. Urbanism is the most advanced, concrete fulfillment of a nightmare. Littre defines nightmare as 'a state that ends when one awakens with a start after extreme anxiety.' But a start against whom? Who has stuffed us to the point of somnolence?

Tom McDonough

#55. When Jesus defines the relationship he wants with us he makes it clear that being a fan who believes without making any real commitment to follow isn't an option.

Kyle Idleman

#56. It's okay to screw up. It's what we do afterward that defines us.

Susan Mallery

#57. Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done.

Irvine Welsh

#58. Pain prompts us to face who we are and where we are. What we do with that experience defines who we become.

John C. Maxwell

#59. Your death defines my life. I want to find the love we never had and explicate it in your name.
I want to take your secrets public. I want to burn down the distance between us.
I want to give you breath.

James Ellroy

#60. We are samurai, Lord. Death defines us. We must become a master of dealing it to our enemies, yes, but most of all lose all fear of our own.

David Kirk

#61. Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

Mike Norton

#62. Our history only makes us but does not defines us.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#63. What defines us is not how we fall but how we land.

Pam Godwin

#64. In short, liturgies make us certain kinds of people, and what defines us is what we love.

James K.A. Smith

#65. The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden chord that connects us: illegal dancing in the courthouse corridors.

Hakim Bey

#66. Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the "why" that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character.

Shannon L. Alder

#67. ...it is what we strive to do, not what we chance to accomplish, that defines us.

Jim Riley

#68. Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity.

Laura Schlessinger

#69. It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.

Sarah Addison Allen

#70. The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.

Nick Clooney

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

Gyan Nagpal

#72. I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.

Barbara Kruger

#73. Music defines us, for it shapes our souls and minds.

Jessica Carroll

#74. Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings can be reduced to a series of mechanical operations.

Neal Stephenson

#75. But making disciples is far more than a program. It is the mission of our lives. It defines us. A disciple is a disciple maker.

Francis Chan

#76. What defines greatness is when you hold all the records and what you mean to your fans, on and off the field, because that is who ranks you as the greatest receiver of all-time. The guy that holds all the records, the guy that has set the stage for all of us, you have to give it to Jerry Rice.

Donald Driver

#77. There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.

David Letterman

#78. Whatever title or office we may be privileged to hold, it is what we do that defines who we are ... Each of us must decide what kind of person we want to be-what kind of legacy that we want to pass on.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#79. It's who we are in the still points that defines us.

Katie Kacvinsky

#80. We all have control over what kind of person we are. Each word that comes out, each action that we take, defines us.

Ruth Cardello

#81. It is our past that defines who we are and gives us the courage to progress into the future without fear

Robert L J Borg

#82. It's our own ability to have an idea and go after the idea and make it happen. That's what at the end of the day defines us.

Satya Nadella

#83. And Conan O'Brien tried to be David Letterman but ended up Conan O'Brien. In O'Brien's words, It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.

Austin Kleon

#84. It's not how we fall that defines us as Christians. It's how we get up again.

Karen Kingsbury

#85. We all lose sometimes. We fail to get what we want. Friends and loved ones leave. We make a decision we regret. We try our hardest and come up short. It's not the losing that defines us. It's how we lose. It's what we do afterward.

Scott Jurek

#86. Lucy said, The law is an adversarial contest that defines justice as staying within the rules and seeing the game to its conclusion. Justice is reaching a conclusion. It has very little to do with right and wrong. The law gives us order. Only men and women can give us what you want to call justice.

Robert Crais

#87. Purpose
Unifies us:
It focuses our dreams,
Guides our plans,
Strengthens our efforts.
Purpose
Defines us,
Shapes us,
And offers us
Greatness.

Octavia E. Butler

#88. Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.

Sheri L. Dew

#89. Inquiry is more important than answers, for it is the questions we ask and the way in which we ask them that defines us.

John Paul Caponigro

#90. We emphasize our differences by nationality, race and financially.It's our common humanity that defines us.

Naveen Andrews

#91. We all make mistakes, Steele. It's what we do afterward that defines us more than the actual incident that led to the mistake. (Joe)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#92. In families there are frequently matters of which no one speaks, nor even alludes. There are no words for these matters. As the binding skeleton beneath the flesh is never acknowledged by us and, when at last it defines itself, is after all an obscenity.

Joyce Carol Oates

#93. What matters isn't what you are, it's who you are, right now, in this moment. What matters are the choices we make. That's what defines us. Nothing else.

Nicholas Kaufmann

#94. With material wealth and in a culture where many of us defines our self-worth by what we have and what we own and what we achieve, it's very hard to comprehend that there are enclaves all over our big country in which people are very purposefully choosing to maintain different values.

Debra Granik

#95. She's different."
"Everyone is different."
"Then let's say I like the ways in which she's different. A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it's how we run that defines us. And if I have to run, I think I'd like to go where she's going.

Michael J. Sullivan

#96. The bad news is, our past defines us. However, the good news is, our future will someday be a part of that past.

Palle Oswald

#97. Socrates defines his life's mission as awakening the Athenians to the supreme importance of attending to their souls. His timeless plea that we connect to ourselves remains the only way for any of us to truly thrive.

Arianna Huffington

#98. It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.

Rita Moreno

#99. We all have a different answer to what defines our happiness and fulfillment, but for all of us it begins with inner peace. Without inner peace, happiness and fulfillment is hard to reach.

Ron Baratono

#100. Of course there are robots among us. There are also Magicians among us. I think we take turns playing each role, as a matter of fact. The Magician defines a reality-mesh and the robot lives in it. Grok?

Robert Anton Wilson