Not Letting The Past Define You Quotes

#1. Where do find the most persecuted Christians in the world? ... in the classrooms of our government schools, where the assault is not upon the body, but the soul.

Alan Keyes

#2. Getting into the character is difficult and letting go of your life and the things that kind of define you, whatever it is in life that's your daily routine because you sort of find yourself in this other life and that's difficult and the other end is difficult.

Joaquin Phoenix

#3. You are here with a unique purpose. Stop letting others define you. Stop letting others dilute you. Don't be bullied or pressured into being less than you are.

Steve Maraboli

#4. My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.

Jenna Jameson

#5. I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.

Christina Baker Kline

#6. Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships.

Patti Davis

#7. Letting my experience carry me on, in a direction which appears to be forward, toward goals that I can but dimly define, as I try to understand at least the current meaning of that experience.

Carl R. Rogers

#8. Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.

Tom Chappell

#9. One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.

Salman Rushdie

#10. Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.

John Thorn

#11. I've grown accustomed to the stars above my head as I sleep, the ache in my muscles as we walk the land. The freedom that comes with defining your world instead of letting it define you.

Amy Engel

#12. Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.

Marian Wright Edelman

#13. You have the strength to push back against what others are making you think or do. You use that muscle of confidence. In the same way, joy is from the inside out, and not letting the things on the outside define you.

Bonnie St. John

#14. Yes, the rich. And that's their misfortune. You see, if you keep adding copper bit by bit to a child's food, you prevent the growth of its bones, and he'll be a dwarf; and if from his youth up you poison a man with gold, you deaden his soul. Once,

Maxim Gorky

#15. You were many wonderful things to many people before you met him
don't let this one event define who you are.

Mary Esselman

#16. Don't try to be someone. Be yourself. This is what mediation should teach you.

Frederick Lenz

#17. There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.

Bat For Lashes

#18. STOP letting your troubles define you! RISE above them by choosing to move on and leave them all behind you.

Timothy Pina

#19. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

Ernest Hemingway,

#20. My definition of confidence is how you feel about yourself, and not letting the external world define you.

Bonnie St. John

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. There is wisdom in not letting anyone really know who you are or what you are like. If you define yourself, people hold you in their mind a certain way making it difficult to change.

Frederick Lenz

#24. Purpose is the place where happiness resides.

Debasish Mridha

#25. It wasn't that the Gospel proved useful for my many worries but that the Gospel proved the uselessness of my worries and so refocused my whole attention.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#26. Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your performance. Avoid letting others sit in judgment of you.

Hal Higdon

#27. Basle, Zurich, Baden, Paris - the flickering of steel rails over the arterial systems of Europe's body: steel ganglia meeting and dividing away across mountains and valleys.

Lawrence Durrell

#28. My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff.

Lily Collins

#29. Great leadership is not about giving orders, it's about taking others

Saji Ijiyemi

#30. I finally realized that I had to embrace the madness, let it transform me instead of letting it define me.

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"You, my ferocious girl, are embracing the madness. Lean into it, won't ya?

R.L. Haas

#31. Life is accumulative - Either our errors accumulate to what we don't get, or our wise decisions accumulate into what we do get.

Jim Rohn

#32. Letting an emotion move through you is healthy. Letting an emotion define you is not.

Chip Conley

#33. She had been so vulnerable, and Norah wanted only to protect her. But that vulnerability was tied to a massive mistake, a perception of herself too damaged to love. If Norah got anything from this book, it's that we're all damaged. The tragedy is letting it define you.

Ellen Meister

#34. Forgiveness means saying that you're not going to let what happened to you define you any longer.

Heidi Priebe