Top 100 Defines You Quotes
#1. I sighed. "Now what do I do?" He leaned against my wall. "What do you want to do?" "Since when has that mattered?" "It's always mattered. It doesn't mean you'll get what you want, but what you want always matters. That's what defines you.
Richard Paul Evans
#2. 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
#3. You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.
Marc Maron
#4. Some mistakes ... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
Jojo Moyes
#5. It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.
Damien Chazelle
#6. What defines you as a person is not the life you were born in to, but what you made of it.
Shahid Kapoor
#7. How YOU see yourself - not anyone else - is the thing that defines you.
Francesca Martinez
#8. Do you ever feel like you do something or are something for so long that it defines you?
Kasie West
#9. It's not who you are underneath, its what you do that defines you.
David S.Goyer
#10. Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be.
James Altucher
#11. It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.
Jim Abbott
#13. The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.
Tom Hollander
#14. It's okay to make mistakes. It's how you fix them that defines you.
Ava Harrison
#16. It is not who you are underneath; it is what you do that defines you
David S.Goyer
#17. Question: When you're one of the few people who can do something to fix a problem, just how responsible does that make you for it? Answer: It's how you choose to answer that question that defines you.
Karen Marie Moning
#18. Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you is agony indeed.
Sally Brampton
#19. Never let anyone define you. You are the only person who defines you. No one can speak for you. Only you speak for you. You are your only voice.
Terry Crews
#20. I'm sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody's does, and you go on. It's how you go on that defines you.
Karen Marie Moning
#21. Choice, what people really want, is the most important thing. Choosing the life you want, making your own choices-that is what defines you as human.
Megan Frampton
#22. When you judge a woman by her appearance, it doesn't define her, it defines you. Ladies, never allow yourself to be defined by someone's inability to appreciate your unique beauty.
Steve Maraboli
#23. I think that property is very important in this day and age. It defines you; you worked hard to get it. It's meaningful to you, and when you divorce, a lot of people have a lot of battles over their property for good reasons.
Helen Fisher
#24. Once you embrace that WHO you are defines you, you can conquer the world. What matters is what's in your heart, what your goals are and what kind of life you want to lead.
Shantel VanSanten
#25. Life ... Isn't a roller coaster, it isn't unexpected or surprising. It's not a free ticket to go along for the ride ... Simply put, Life is life. Its who you are, what you do that defines you and your life, so choose ... but choose wisely, because life is here to stay ...
Bilal Hussain
#26. Even the most gentle people have a dark side you know." I was trying to warn him.
"I know," he said handing me the other bowl of soup.
"It's how you control that darkness that defines you.
Jennifer Wilson
#27. Rose said: 'Some people would be needing their spare glasses, or that blue cardigan. You need a book. Of course.'
'A deficiency?'said Charlotte meekly.
'Not at all. The need defines you, that's all.
Penelope Lively
#28. When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.
Kevin Costner
#29. It's not what power you have. It's what you do with the power you have that defines you. We all have power. What's yours?
R.S.J. Gregory
#30. You are you because you love the way the world looks through your camera. You are you because of the way you love your friends and family. Not because some scar is on your body. That's a part of your history and what helps form what you believe in. not what defines you.
A.M. Willard
#31. I don't think that incident necessarily defines you as bad. I think it makes you human. And I believe you would have stopped yourself. I think that's what makes a person good. Not that you make mistakes, but that you recognize them. You feel remorse for them. You want to correct them and do better.
Veronica Rossi
#32. What defines you isn't how many times you crash but the number of times you get back.
Sarah Dessen
#33. You don't have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.
Jojo Moyes
#34. Think of yourself as a brand. You need to be remembered. What will they remember you for? What defines you? If you have it in you, do something that defines you. Invent something, develop a unique skill, get noticed for something - it creates a talking point.
Chris Arnold
#35. Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you.
P.C. Cast
#36. The price one pays when choosing exile is the loss of all that defines you as an individual. The only thing that makes this immense loss tolerable is the discovery of a self you did not know existed - of a true independence. That is the real gift of America, not its fabled wealth and prosperity.
Azar Nafisi
#37. It's not all been rosy; I've had difficult situations where I've failed. But when you fail you learn a lot about yourself and come back stronger. The message is: life need not have limits. Having an opportunity in life is important but what defines you is what you do with that opportunity.
Richard Whitehead
#38. Every battle defines you
Unknown
#39. I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.
Jack Whitehall
#40. Forgiveness releases you from a past that no longer defines you. Allow yourself to move on.
Cheryl Richardson
#41. It is through your experience you find out who you really are and who you are is from finding your own experience who really defines you.
Charleston Parker
#42. Everyone is going to face challenges. What defines you is how you overcome those.
J. R. Celski
#43. Sometimes a moment defines you, defines how people see you for the rest of your life. You can accept it or fight it. If you're lucky, you'll recognize the moment when it happens.
Corrine Jackson
#44. Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then carry with you for the rest of your life, trying to confirm it or extend or correct or deny it; but you can never eliminate it.
Italo Calvino
#45. In every lifetime there is a moment. A moment so clear, so profoundly unique; that it stands out against billions of other moments. When you find a moment such as this one, you pay extra close attention to it. It will usually contain something that defines you in the future. (The Children of Ankh)
Kim Cormack
#46. It's your life, not your death, that defines you.
J.J. Brown
#47. It all counts,' Adam said again. 'And the bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more, you're all good.-pg 325 Along for the Ride
Sarah Dessen
#48. What you love, you pursue. What you pursue defines you.
Unknown
#49. My father was from Northern Ireland, and coming from somewhere like that, your faith defines you. That's something we don't really understand outside Northern Ireland, but because of my parents and grandparents, I've experienced it.
Anna Maxwell Martin
#50. Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.
Michael Lee-Chin
#51. Your pain doesn't define you. Your failures don't define you. Your createdness defines you. Christ in his goodness defines you".
Shauna Niequist
#52. My best life lessons and education didn't come from a classroom - they've come from the wild. How you act in the big moments, the ones that challenge you, scare you, tempt you, and force you to make the right decisions, is what defines you.
Bear Grylls
#53. It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.
Georges St-Pierre
#56. Emotions don't arrive intact. Shards injure you incrementally, so small at first you don't notice them. Over time, the damage builds and one day you realise the nicks and cuts have become gaping wounds. Worse still, they've become the very thing that defines you.
Nigel Jay Cooper
#57. I think that first love defines you and your relationships, for the rest of your life. I had a great first love. My heart was ripped out of my chest, but I think that happens to everyone.
Alex Pettyfer
#59. When your job is what defines you, when that is the be-all and end-all of your existence, what does a fake smile and a sallow look matter. You have to save your job to keep body and soul together, don't you?
Andy Paula
#60. Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.
Oprah Winfrey
#61. I don't admire how much a person has, I admire what a person does with what they have and I think that defines you most.
Aeriel Miranda
#62. You must make time for that which matters, for that which defines you: your passion, your progress, your pen. Take it up, and write your own story.
V.E Schwab
#63. I'm not saying that being gay is what defines me, but at the same time, if you feel like you have to hide it, then it becomes what defines you. You keep it hidden, and the secret becomes you.
Alan Ball
#64. When you are caught in the mind, your past defines you. When you are present, you are beyond definition.
Leonard Jacobson
#65. I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.
Peter Berg
#66. Beauty is important, but who you are in your heart defines you better.
Debasish Mridha
#67. If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you for life; even when you're thirty you refer to yourself as an only child.
Russell Brand
#68. Know that you are worth so much more than the value you place on your body. It's not the only thing that defines you.
Molly Tarlov
#69. What you do with your time alive defines you, Reader, but hear me, I beg you, when I say that you are not done being defined.
Daniel Kraus
#70. The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good.
Sarah Dessen
#71. It is not who you are underneath but it is what underwear you wear and what you do that defines you
Bruce Wayne
#72. How they treat you defines them. How you treat others defines you.
Rita Zahara
#73. That, and so many other smaller incidents in my life, made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people. I
Trevor Noah
#74. Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you're good, you'll reset that expectation again
Seth Godin
#75. In my career I defined myself by my music, and the danger is that one defines oneself based on popularity. As you know, that goes up and down, and you can't judge how you feel about yourself based on what your sales is.
Kenny Loggins
#76. A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.
Dean Kamen
#77. What you've done isn't the only thing that defines who you are. Words are just as powerful as action. They can aspire action in others, can't they?
Erica Crouch
#78. 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
#79. One of the things that defines a TEDster is you've taken your passion, and you've turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about.
Omar Ahmad
#80. Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person. All you add is food and climate control, and some time, and the embryo becomes you or me.
Todd Akin
#81. This law ... defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war.
Daniel Quinn
#82. 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
#83. That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
G. Willow Wilson
#84. [Monty] talks about Fritz Perls and the Gestalt theory. The here and now is the only time that exists. And being yourself. Not accepting yourself, not taking yourself for granted. Being yourself. Your self. Monty defines 'normality' as a contententment with who you are.
Antony Sher
#85. The biggest challenge you have is to challenge your own self doubt and your laziness. It is your self doubt and your laziness that defines and limit who you are.
Robert Kiyosaki
#86. 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
#87. Human beings by their very nature are worshipers. Worship is not something we do; it defines who we are. You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don't. Everybody worships; it's just a matter of what, or whom, we serve.
Paul David Tripp
#88. 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
#89. You don't realize how much a dog's presence defines the contours of your home until, in its absence, the walls seem to relocate themselves.
Meghan Daum
#92. I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.
Stephen King
#93. There will never be another woman who owns the look, the personality, and the experience that you do. Those ingredients make up the recipe that defines who you are, and it's your gift from the Lord - own it.
Candace Cameron
#94. My parents always put more of an emphasis on who I was as opposed to what I achieved. They were never like, "You won that! You did this!" It was all about, "You've got a good heart. You're a good friend. You're a good daughter." So that other stuff in no way defines my sense of self.
Emma Stone
#95. One Choice
One Choice, decided your friends.
One Choice, defines your beliefs.
One Choice, determines your loyalties - Forever.
ONCE CHOICE CAN TRANSFORM YOU
Veronica Roth
#96. You define beauty for yourself, society doesn't define your beauty. Your spirit and your faith defines your beauty.
Lady Gaga
#97. Look at a guy like Ian McKellen, who is eighty or whatever, and he's just loving his work, and you can see that in the work. That defines what type of actor you are. And what kind of people want to work with you. And whether you can do this job for a long, long time.
Jason Clarke
#98. Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that wasn't punctuated by the music you listened to at the time. When people are down, they listen to music that commiserates that emotion. When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs.
Mark Hoppus
#99. What you invest your time in defines who you are.
Todd Duncan
#100. What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.
Ken Livingstone
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