Top 100 Not Define Quotes
#1. We need to know that our limits do not define our limitations. And an empty tomb does exactly that.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#2. 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
#3. It was the only lie she ever told. She did not do it to protect Francisco; she did it because she felt, for some reason which she could not define, that the incident was a secret too precious to share.
Ayn Rand
#4. my past behavior need not define who I was, am, and could be.
Ken
#5. Failure does not define us, it refines us.
Steve Knox
#6. A day does not define who you are, but rather - it decides who you will become.
Joshua E. Dyer
#7. When you start defining yourself, you put yourself in boxes and I don't want to be trapped in anything because I will always evolve - I will always change. It's like water. I take on many shapes. Everyone should be that way and not define themselves. I am everything.
Karrine Steffans
#8. The Six Core Competencies do not define or offer a formula. Rather, they define structure driven by criteria for the elements that comprise it.
Larry Brooks
#9. What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling
Bob Hoskins
#11. I never put myself in that box of you're an Oscar winner so you can only do this or that. That's one award, one night, and it does not define my career or it does not define me as an artist. I never wanted to get put in that Oscar box because that's a lonely place to be.
Halle Berry
#12. Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as profit-making machines whose only reason for existing is to satisfy escalating expectation for immediate gain.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#13. Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#15. I do not define my job in any rigid terms but in terms of having the flexibility to what seems to me to be in the best interests of the company at any times.
Henry Earl Singleton
#16. We are also not what others think of us. Our reputations do not define our true worth. Every person we know has an opinion of us. We drive ourselves crazy wondering what those opinion are and trying to change the ones that aren't favorable.
Toni Sorenson
#18. I've always maintained my name will not define my films, my films will define my name. But I wish I was called Steve, or something else.
McG
#19. Learning to love my inner and outer beauty wasn't an easy road. I still don't always love the reflection I see in the mirror, but I have learned that my outer appearance does not define me.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
#20. It is valour which defines a kshatriya, a kshatriya does not define valour. You are known by the deeds done; merit has no pedigree.
Kavita Kane
#21. 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
#22. The writing does not define me, but says something about who I am.
Liv-Christine Hoem
#23. We must not define Jesus and his kingdom by fitting them within conventional understandings of kings and kingdoms. Rather, we must judge and deconstruct those conventional definitions in light of Jesus and his example.
Brian D. McLaren
#24. Life could be brutal, but that such brutality did not define life or its purpose, and that the sexes were not rivals, but meant to share together in the work and joys of life.
Terry Goodkind
#25. I am from the bush. The bush did not define me. I did not stay in the bush, but I never forgot where I came from.
Anthony Carmona
#26. When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself
Earl Nightingale
#27. I love to remember the World Trade Centre walk, but it should not define me.
Philippe Petit
#28. We walk into the mystery of God; we do not define that mystery.
John Shelby Spong
#29. I am an actor. I am an artist. I am a daughter. I am a sister. I am a partner. I have a past that some people may not agree with, but it does not define who I am.
Sasha Grey
#30. Judging a person does not define who they are. It defines who you are
Kristen Stewart
#31. 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
#32. The key is to trust in your preparation. You have done all you can, so focus on that fact. You will remain the same person before, during and after the race, so the result, however important, will not define you. The journey is what matters.
Chrissie Wellington
#33. The past does not define me, it ignites me. The past is not a piece of me, it has placed me.
Ricky Maye
#34. One mistake does not define you, Julian. Do you understand me? You must simply act better next time.
R.J. Palacio
#35. 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
#36. I'm hideous"
"You could never be hideous"
"Forget it" I wanted this conversation over.
"I can't forget it," Gran said, not giving up so easily. "I don't like to hear you talk about yourself that way. Your scars do not define you, young lady. Your action do.
Cambria Hebert
#37. Let your failures refine you, not define you.
Max Lucado
#38. I love my job and the excitement and challenges it offers. But my job does not define me. If this job ended tomorrow I'd find another way to find that glorious feeling of accomplishment. No employer or career choice "made" me. I made me...
Megyn Kelly
#39. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
Elliot W. Eisner
#40. Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you.
P.C. Cast
#41. Send out judgment and low energy and that is what you'll attract back. Remember, when you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself as someone who needs to judge. The same applies to judgments directed at you.
Wayne Dyer
#43. Our past, if processed properly, has the ability to refine us for the better, not define or confine us to anything less then we deserve.
Trish Blackwell
#45. If you do not define success for yourself, you may unknowingly adopt someone else's definition along the way.
Chris Matakas
#46. Louise closed her eyes. She could not define what she was feeling but knew no other way to express it than to say that she loved him. So that's what she said. It occurred to her that you only get glimpses of love, your whole life, just bits and pieces.
Tom Drury
#47. Geography does not define you - love does.
Eve Ensler
#48. Lineage, personality, and environment may shape you, but they do not define your full potential.
Mollie Marti
#49. It is so important that we as spiritual people should not define ourselves only by our profession
Sunday Adelaja
#50. 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
#53. 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
#54. Let the trials in your life guide you not define you
Kim Cormack
#55. I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.
Oprah Winfrey
#56. Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny.
Richard Ebeling
#57. Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.
Kathleen Norris
#58. Where you come from, what you look like, and what your past holds do not define you as an individual
you are what you make yourself to be.
Kat Von D.
#59. The term 'Being' does not define that realm of entities which is uppermost when these are articulated conceptually according to genus and species: the 'universality' of Being 'transcends' any universality of genus.
Martin Heidegger
#60. Your mistakes ...
Should always guide you to a better life
And Not define you to help keep you in the past
Timothy Pina
#61. The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it's a damn good start.
Jodi Picoult
#62. Do not settle for people who do not appreciate you, who do not know how lucky they are. Remember it is a privilege to be loved by you or even just to be touched by you. And the warmth of another body does not define your worth.
Sade Andria Zabala
#63. Pain does not define us, neither does joy; our deepest definition is independent of our experiences.
Bryant McGill
#64. You are not defined by an Instagram photo, by a like, by a comment. That does not define you.
Selena Gomez
#65. Evil, good, create, destroy. Puny minds. Puny caves. Time, MacKayla. Time absolves.
Time does not define the act. Time is impartial; it neither condemns nor absolves. The action contains intent, and intent is where the definition lies.
Karen Marie Moning
#66. The abuse does not define you or have the last word on your identity. Yes, it is part of your story, but not the end of your story.
Lindsey A. Holcomb
#67. The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found it necessary to discuss their shapes, and gives them no particular forms in his diagrams. That does not mean that the shapes are unimportant, but rather that the older methods could not define them.
William Henry Bragg
#68. She always stood so trim and erect, and you had the feeling that all her grace and softness was caught in the rigor of an idea which you could not define.
Robert Penn Warren
#69. Feelings and thoughts do not define who we are; they are just part of the weather of our inner world.
John Daishin Buksbazen
#70. Religion does not define God's character God reveals it to us in His word and in person, in His Son Jesus Christ.
Jonah Books
#72. In other words, our opinions and our thoughts and feelings, anything we experience, need not define us forever.
Nicholas Sparks
#73. Technological innovations do not define a science; they merely prove that medicine is scientific - i.e.,
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#74. Education does not define you as a "HUMAN BEING" your actions does.
Henry Johnson Jr
#77. Your mistake does not define who you are ... you are your possibilities.
Oprah Winfrey
#78. Distance does not define your destination; it is defined by your thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#79. Jesus did not define the kingdom as being in the hearts of the Pharisees or anyone else. The kingdom is an objective reality when the King is present.
Dr. J. Otis Yoder
#80. A director should not define everything. For me, the movie is a form of a question I pose to the others or to the audience. I want to ask their opinion on my point of view and discuss it with them.
Kim Ki-duk
#81. We do not define ourselves as men or as women through our work, our house, our health, or our reputation. We define ourselves as men and women through the way we love.
Simone Troisi
#82. Do not define your success in the context of just one situation or challenge you are currently battling or pursuing.
Archibald Marwizi
#83. I love that this morning's sunrise does not define itself by last night's sunset.
Steve Maraboli
#85. Young man, the fact that she did not accept your proposal for a relationship does not define why you should hate her. She may not become your BRIDE, but she can be the BRIDGE you have to cross to the other side with your dreams!
Israelmore Ayivor
#86. Do not define yourself by what you do. A manager? No, you are not a manager but you work as a manager. A maid? No, you are not a maid but you work as a maid. An accountant? No but you only work now as an accountant
Ikechukwu Joseph
#87. May the Venusian arts enrich your life, not define it.
Mystery
#88. For Black women as well as Black men, it is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others - for their use and to our detriment.
Audre Lorde
#90. Perception does not define who we are, but it does define where we are limited, and where we are not yet free.
Georgi Y. Johnson
#91. Giacomina had taught her daughter that you must dig constantly for meaning in the sorrow of this life, and that this sorrow must galvanize you, not define you.
Adriana Trigiani
#92. 'Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.
Saul Williams
#93. Today is the day to cast your worries on God and breathe in new life. Your past does not define who you are today.
Gabriella Marigold Lindsay
#94. When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
Pearl S. Buck
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. So many people define themselves by what they've accomplished or not accomplished.
Morley
#98. It's not our mistakes that define us, but what we do about them.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#99. 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
#100. 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
