How To Define Quotes

#1. Esoteric words neither make us holy nor righteous; only a virtuous life makes us beloved of God. I would rather experience repentance in my soul than know how to define it.

Thomas A Kempis

#2. I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is.

Michael Nesmith

#3. I would rather feel contrition than know how to define it.

Thomas A Kempis

#4. There are themes that somehow stir me and that I find very interesting. They're themes that deal with leadership, the nature of bravery and courage, and how to define those.

Stephen Lang

#5. I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

Thomas A Kempis

#6. Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.

Val Kilmer

#7. Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how to think, how to define ourselves.

Tamar Jacoby

#8. I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

Macaulay Culkin

#9. But how to define the eroticism of a man (or an era) that sees female seductive power as centered in the middle of the body, in the navel?

Milan Kundera

#10. I don't think of myself as anyone special, and I would not know how to define myself.

Rei Kawakubo

#11. It does not matter how much we donate; it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define meaningful? Let society and history judge.

Ronnie Chan

#12. He pulled back to gaze at her, cupping her face in his hands. Because it's something else, too, isn't it? Something that terrifies you because you don't know how to define it. Something that makes every touch feel more right than you've ever been.

Aria Kane

#13. When you are in a growth company, you have to really open people's eyes to the bigger possibilities so they think differently. Once they understand how to define success and what their role is in success, they make better decisions, and you can push decision-making down.

Dan Rosensweig

#14. I didn't know how to define it
hermetic skepticism? liturgical cynicism?
this higher disbelief that led him to acknowledge the dignity of all the superstitions he scorned.

Umberto Eco

#15. Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

Todd Gitlin

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. I allowed social media to define what I thought of my body. And now I realize that no matter how thin you are, someone will call you fat. No matter how beautiful you are, someone will call you ugly. But you can't spend your time worrying about that. You're just not going to please the world.

Demi Lovato

#20. Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.

Adam Davidson

#21. I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works.

Harold Bloom

#22. Every book changes you in some way, whether it's your perspective on the world or how you define yourself in relation to the world.

Mindy Mejia

#23. I'm interested in how we define things by how we choose to observe them, and how everywhere in our lives, and in every moment we experience, there are forces at work that we don't fully understand. Couple this curiosity with a love of portraiture painting, and that's how this project was born.

Oliver Jeffers

#24. 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

#25. I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So, yeah, that's how I'd define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars.

Daniel Radcliffe

#26. Scholars and enlightened always want to define the differences between communism, socialism, fascism and other economic or political systems. It really doesn't matter to those who are subjected to those societies how someone has articulated their misery.

Jake Danishevsky

#27. A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how you describe and define 'nature.'

Richard Louv

#28. Not everything written on Kafka is Kafkology. How then to define Kafkology? By a tautology: Kafkology is discourse for Kafkologizing Kafka. For replacing Kafka with the Kafkologized Kafka.

Milan Kundera

#29. 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

#30. Despite how impressive many of my teachers were, they were undoubtedly human and susceptible to the same cultural biases and physical infirmities that define the lives of ordinary people.

Sam Harris

#31. Haven, don't ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of his own pubic hair onto a painting and sold it for a million dollars.

Lisa Kleypas

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. Don't let your idea of God be limited to the imagination of others. Don't let them define your God and don't let them tell you how to express your faith.

Steve Maraboli

#35. How you handle Failure, determines your success.

How you rise after a fall is going to define you.

I don't care how dedicated you are, I want to know how OBSESSED can you be.

I don't LOVE what I do, I LIVE it.

Harsh Malik

#36. It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.

Carolyn Mackler

#37. To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get along without it. To define is to eliminate.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#38. How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt to repeat the miracle that the simplest peasant girl is capable of at any time, that of magically producing life out of nothing.

Oskar Kokoschka

#39. How can we hope, after all, to see a tree or rock or clear north sky if we do not adopt a little of their mode of life, a little of their time? if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space "in no time" is to have denied its reality

Robert Adams

#40. 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

#41. I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.

George P. Shultz

#42. The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

V.S. Naipaul

#43. 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

#44. All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.

Mark Hoppus

#45. We block our conscious wants with beliefs. It's important to find them, with a psychologist, tarot, a book, whatever. That's how you define quality in any of these choices, if they give you want you need.

Robin Sacredfire

#46. If you don't like how others define & label you, then work on your values. Embrace and practice values that you would like to be associated.

Assegid Habtewold

#47. 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

#48. As long as we define stress as how some person or situation is making us feel, we will have to change the world around us to find peace of mind.

Bill Crawford

#49. 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

#50. You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.

Randall Terry

#51. People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That's how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be "correct" or "true"? Merely vague concepts ... Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

Masashi Kishimoto

#52. 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

#53. No matter how you define success, you will need to be resilient, empowered, authentic, and limber to get there.

Joanie Connell

#54. But in Japan, there are two very specific words to define these selves: tatemae, or the presentation of your public self, and honne, how you really feel.

Roland Kelts

#55. The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.

Tony Campolo

#56. Rather than allowing external forces to define how we feel inside, each of us can be our own thermostat.

William Powers

#57. Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I'll stop the whole production: 'Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.'

Kevin Hart

#58. Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.

Dale Archer

#59. I don't think you can define how you acquire your imagination any more than you can define why one person has a sense of humor and another doesn't. But I certainly would lean to the side that says all those solitary hours of daydreaming were a kind of training for poetry.

James Tate

#60. You should never be defined by what you do, by the things you have; you've got to define yourself by who you are and who you impact and how you impact people. And that's the thing I try to get across to my players.

Tony Dungy

#61. It doesn't matter who you are, what you do, or where you live, everybody struggles from time to time. It's not the struggles that define you; it's how you overcome them.

Brandi Glanville

#62. I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.

M.J. Rose

#63. And this was something I would always wonder about - how the lines were drawn to define mental illness. When did a little depression become pathological? When did anxiety turn into something bigger, something greater and more cautionary about your own stability?

Kate Axelrod

#64. How do I define God? I don't ... People who find such conceptions important for themselves have every right to frame them as they like. Personally, I don't.

Noam Chomsky

#65. The heart define whom we are were attracted to. I was attracted to him, sexually, mentally and maybe even spiritually. And the heart decided for how long that inner madness would last.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#66. I think artists should define themselves. They should speak about their work and how it relates to society and what's going on in the world.

Jose Parla

#67. In a basic sense, 'A Little Life' is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It's a different version of adulthood, but it's no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else's.

Hanya Yanagihara

#68. 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

#69. Never define your success by somebody else's success. I never looked at another man's grass to tell how green mine should be.

Xzibit

#70. In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.

Orson Scott Card

#71. I have to believe him. How, I don't know. But I can't go out like this. I can't live out the rest of my life engraved with an identity that does not define me. I am not a monster.

Allison Rose

#72. You do understand that you can't force the situation, but in terms of how you edit, you can define that to take the audience along, whether it be a storyline or a character moment that we can play out. The more experience you've had, the more beneficial it is, period.

Barry Levinson

#73. Here's how I define "stuff": anything you have allowed into your psychological or physical world that doesn't belong where it is, but for which you haven't yet determined what, exactly, it means to you, with the desired outcome and the next action step.

David Allen

#74. One has to define very clearly what one's objectives are, determine in advance how much one is prepared to pay to achieve that objective and then act accordingly.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#75. To those of us who often procrastinate on the decision we feel intimidated by lack of education or any area of weakness. I relieve you with this statement: It is not how much you know that arms you with the tools of great decision making, but rather how much you ask. Ask questions.

T.D. Jakes

#76. The moment we begin to define others and ourselves by how we are different, the seeds of separation are planted.

Kim H. Krisco

#77. What is Music? How do you define it? Music is a calm moonlit night, the rustle of leaves in Summer. Music is the far off peal of bells at dusk! Music comes straight from the heart and talks only to the heart: it is Love! Music is the Sister of Poetry and her Mother is sorrow!

Sergei Rachmaninoff

#78. I have the liberal dictionary right here ... let's see how they define water-boarding: 'Something done by the evil troops, who we don't support, to innocent terrorists violating their rights to bomb our cities and make us get gay marriage.'

Jon Stewart

#79. I think pure country music includes rock and roll .. I've never been able to get into the further label of country-rock .. how can you define something like that ? - I just say this: It's music. Either it's good or it's bad; either you like it or you don't

Gram Parsons

#80. Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.

Ravi Zacharias

#81. I have two passports because I have to have at least one, and I really don't know how I define myself. And I feel that as I get older, I feel very fortunate to have, on paper, a dual nationality.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#82. Make adjustments and improvements to enhance the effectiveness of meetings or surpassing of your target. Learn to define, quantify and be specific about what, how and when you want to succeed in each area of your life.

Archibald Marwizi

#83. How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

Aristotle.

#84. You NEED to look back to remember the awesome memories, to remember the positive lessons you have learned, to help someone else learn from what you have lived and to see how far you have come.

Tanya Masse

#85. How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.

Kenneth Tynan

#86. As you watch 'Documented' on CNN, I ask you, my fellow Americans: What do you want to do with me? What do you want to do with us? How do you define American?

Jose Antonio Vargas

#87. 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

#88. Don't just let your career happen to you. You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.

Denise Morrison

#89. You see, events occur throughout our lives that forever alter us, and it is how we react to those circumstances that define who we are.

Day Parker

#90. People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.

Vaclav Havel

#91. It all depends on how you want to define what an MVP is. I've been fortunate to win the trophy four times, but I've been the MVP of my team for a long time - just because of the way I lead and the way I approach us being professionals off the floor.

LeBron James

#92. I used to have a fake Louis Vuitton bag because I thought it meant something in life. But now I realize that all the things in the world don't define you. It's what you stand for, what you're willing to do, how close to the truth you're willing to be in your life.

Oprah Winfrey

#93. It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.

Ha-Joon Chang

#94. 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

#95. How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

#96. Very few people ever meet celebrities. All we really know is what we read about them and the most memorable lines are jokes. That's how we tend to define what we think of a public figure.

Robert Orben

#97. You can always choose how you prefer to respond to any external circumstances. Do not define your happiness by what is happening around you. Be happy only because this is what you enjoy doing.

Raphael Zernoff

#98. Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#99. The power of a painting has to come from the inside out, not the outside in. It's not just an image. It's an image with a body and that body has to contain its spirit ... What's behind it decides everything. How it starts will define how it ends.

Sean Scully

#100. Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.

Billy Graham