Do Not Let Your Past Define You Quotes

#1. Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn.

Lauren Oliver

#2. Psychoanalysts in particular define man as a human being and woman as a female: every time she acts like a human being, the woman is said to be imitating the male.

Simone De Beauvoir

#3. We need to define gentrification as separate from the process of displacement.

Justin Davidson

#4. Writing a log line helps you define - for yourself - the essential elements of the plot. It will also let you know immediately if major components of the plot are missing.

David Macinnis Gill

#5. It's really important to not allow rejection to define who you are. Just because someone did not value or approve of you does not mean you should give up on yourself or let go of the amazing dreams you have on the inside.

Jamie Larbi

#6. But the good thing about life, Julian," she continued, "is that we can fix our mistakes sometimes. We learn from them. We get better. One mistake does not define you.

R.J. Palacio

#7. Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.

Graydon Carter

#8. Jhumpa Lahiri calls living in a foreign country "an eternal pregnancy"; an uncomfortable wait for something impossible to define.

G. Willow Wilson

#9. Your race doesn't define you. -Richard

S.M. Boyce

#10. I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be the power of doing whatever the law permits, meaning the civil laws, does not seem satisfactory.

John Adams

#11. You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.

Robin Hobb

#12. We all are faced by problems of 'How am I going to get the rent?' or 'Am I going to have this job six months from now?' It's very difficult to define in your life a victory.

Michael A. Stackpole

#13. The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don't create it. You don't define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it - or bow to it.

John Piper

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

Lindsay J. Pryor

#15. So many people define themselves by what they've accomplished or not accomplished.

Morley

#16. The problem with this generation is they are so quick to define who they are in the process of searching. It is their need for immediate acceptance that keeps them from exploring further.

Shannon L. Alder

#17. But define 'completely ridiculous shit,'" Duvall said. "Does space travel count? Contact with alien races? Does quantum physics count? Because I don't understand that crap at all. As far as I'm concerned, quantum physics could have been written by a hack.

John Scalzi

#18. God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny.

John Shelby Spong

#19. Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it's not somebody else's goal, it's yours.

Drew Carey

#20. Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.

Alyson Noel

#21. When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

Pearl S. Buck

#22. There are moments in every relationship that define when two people start to fall in love.

A first glance

A first smile

A first kiss

A first fall ...

Colleen Hoover

#23. 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

#24. We define learning as the transformative process of taking in information that, when internalized and mixed with what we have experienced, changes what we know and builds on what we can do. It's based on input, process, and reflection. It is what changes us.

Marcia Conner

#25. We have disagreements as to what race does and ought to mean, but we have a remarkable consensus on what it is, without any ability to define it technically.

Barbara Katz Rothman

#26. The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.

Thomas Sowell

#27. We need to know that our limits do not define our limitations. And an empty tomb does exactly that.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#28. The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#29. Let no one define how you se yourself ... save God alone. See yourself through His eyes and His strength, and you'll see who you can be despite being who you are.

Tamera Alexander

#30. But over time people break apart, no matter how enormous the love they feel for one another is, and it is through the breaking and the reconciliation, the love and the doubting of love, the judgment and then the coming together again, that we find our own identity and define our relationships.

Ann Patchett