Past Defines Quotes

#1. For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

Davis Bunn

#2. When you are caught in the mind, your past defines you. When you are present, you are beyond definition.

Leonard Jacobson

#3. The bad news is, our past defines us. However, the good news is, our future will someday be a part of that past.

Palle Oswald

#4. The past defines us as much as the present. By never knowing my past, I was never sure of who I was. Because mine was missing, I never felt whole.

Arlene J. Chai

#5. Sometimes our emotions rule us. How we handle the consequences ... defines us.

Kat Bastion

#6. So why was I so scared? Because crime is something relative; it's something the government defines and redefines whenever it pleases.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

#7. Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can't put numbers to it. And yet it's the thing that defines the way we live, the things we'd like to have for everyone whether it's health or education.

Bill Gates

#8. Fans will try and make Jesus one of many. Some fans may even make Jesus the first of many. But when Jesus defines the relationship he makes it clear; he wants to be your one and only.

Kyle Idleman

#9. It's not who you are underneath, its what you do that defines you.

David S.Goyer

#10. Do you ever feel like you do something or are something for so long that it defines you?

Kasie West

#11. I am not designed to exist in this thing- and yet for all intents and purposes it is now the thing that defines me. It is the only thing that defines me.

Jojo Moyes

#12. Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny.

R. R. Reno

#13. 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

#14. What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.

Ashlee Simpson

#15. I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Zadie Smith

#16. How YOU see yourself - not anyone else - is the thing that defines you.

Francesca Martinez

#17. 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

#18. Our reality defines itself by people who strive for change

Daniel Egger

#19. It's how we deal with the things that hurt us most that defines us.

Jay Crownover

#20. Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.

Renata Adler

#21. 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

#22. Past a certain point, maybe, a person's character defines itself and stays fixed in your mind.

Damon Galgut

#23. 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

#24. The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the future is more than a whim of the gods and that men and women are not passive before nature.

Peter L. Bernstein

#25. You can never run from your past; it defines who you are today. But, use your Awo given intelligence and enjoy the future ... because THAT only comes once.' VAALBARA The Land of Shadows

Michelle Horst

#26. We can't run away from what defines our fates. Who we are and what we believe in grow from the roots of our past, no matter how much we might try to deny it.

Gail Tsukiyama

#27. The present defines the future. The future builds on the foundation of the past.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. Embrace your past. It's your greatest teacher. When you learn and apply those lessons than it no longer defines your future.

Sarah Centrella

#29. Forgiveness releases you from a past that no longer defines you. Allow yourself to move on.

Cheryl Richardson

#30. 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

#31. It is our past that defines who we are and gives us the courage to progress into the future without fear

Robert L J Borg

#32. Our past is what shapes us, the scars it leaves behind mold us, and what we do with the shit that's left over is what defines us.

Gail McHugh

#33. Belief defines reality

Michael R. Fletcher

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. It may have been my youth that forged my heart but it is my adulthood that defines me now." ~quote by Roe'vaash in "Then'diel's HEART

K. Farrell St. Germain

#37. 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

#38. because sometimes all we get are moments. There are no do-overs; whatever happens in a moment defines life - perhaps it is life.

Tillie Cole

#39. What defines me? Skin? I hope I'm more than that. Than this. That I am what I think, what I believe. What I feel.

Lissa Price

#40. Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.

Pranab Mukherjee

#41. God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards.

Francis Chan

#42. As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#43. Class is not defined by our circumstances - it is our reaction to those circumstances that defines who we are.

Jordan Christy

#44. Chemical compounds of carbon can exist in an infinite variety of compositions, forms and sizes. The naturally occurring organic substances are the basis of all life on Earth, and their science at the molecular level defines a fundamental language of that life.

Elias James Corey

#45. 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

#46. It's the way we deal with what Fate hands us that defines who we are.

Lisa Graff

#47. What defines you as a person is not the life you were born in to, but what you made of it.

Shahid Kapoor

#48. 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

#49. Life can be seen through several spectrums of light, but it's the person who is doing the soul searching that defines what they may see.

Nadege Richards

#50. You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.

Marc Maron

#51. It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot

Ron Paul

#52. It is not triumph which defines a man, but tragedy. Triumph always brings out the best in men, but tragedy shows us what we are made of.

Jocelyn Murray

#53. Thinking which displaces, or otherwise defines, the sacred has been called atheistic, and that philosophy which does not place it here or there, like a thing, but at the joining of things and words, will always be exposed to this reproach without ever being touched by it.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. That's a maker," Isidore said. "That's the way they are. Creativity in large and small ways defines their nature in everything they do.

Terry Goodkind

#59. 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

#60. Without doubt, in animation each frame is important, every movement defines the character.

Lucrecia Martel