Top 100 Quotes About Define
#1. So how would you define a Londoner, then?" Lady Penny asked curiously. "Someone who lives here. It's like the old definition of a cockney: someone who's born within hearing distance of Bow bells. And a foreigner," he added with a grin, "is anyone, Anglo-Saxon or not, who lives outside.
Edward Rutherfurd
#2. Don't let a dictionary define your life. Whatever friend means to you, that is the correct definition. Whatever joy and peace means to you, that is the correct definition.
Sydney Wilhelmy
#3. It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.
William Carlos Williams
#4. I see women going anywhere they want to. And I do mean want to. Because a lot of people measure success merely by position, title and salary. I think women feel comfortable enough in their own skin to put that secondary to what they want. They don't have to define success by the measure of society.
Charlene Li
#5. Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful.
Jerry Leiber
#6. Once out of your cradle, you don't focus on the world in the abstract, perceiving things for the first time, but in synchrony with your accumulated knowledge, which enriches and helps define your experience, as well as ensuring its uniqueness.
Winifred Gallagher
#7. Long before Starbucks popularized the phrase 'the third place' - somewhere to interact outside of work and home - it was neighborhood restaurants that helped to define places like Union Square.
Danny Meyer
#8. It is not the rough times endured that define your relationship, it's how you deal with them and bounce back.
Mark W. Boyer
#10. Always define your area of excellence. Establish the area where you will be the best.
Farrah Gray
#11. Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves.
Angelina Jolie
#12. Shane Dekkar. A man to define what all men should desire to become. Perfection, defined.
Scott Hildreth
#13. If I want to define myself, I first have to say, "I am a woman"; all other assertions will arise from this basic truth. A man never begins by positing himself as an individual of a certain sex: that he is a man is obvious.
Simone De Beauvoir
#14. I define success as when I say "yes" when I am given an opportunity.
Jane Pauley
#15. I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.
Liz Phair
#16. I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire
Edward Burne-Jones
#17. As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Stephen Covey
#18. It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Thomas Hardy
#19. I think the differences between men and women, it's kind of hard to define what those are and the challenges, what they are. I think there are challenging things for everybody.
Nick Jonas
#20. Sometimes you can define a composition or a couple of notes by the silence that goes around it.
Steve Tibbetts
#21. Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain
which scans the environment for any trouble making changes.
If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.
Alan Watts
#22. What I've come to realize is that emotional intelligence, which I define as buoyancy, was the only way I knew how to lead, and is, in my option, the only way to inspire real change.
Kevin Allen
#23. Women define themselves by their relationships and men define themselves by whom they are helping. Women believe value is created by sacrifice. If you are willing to give up your favorite activities to be with her, she will trust you. If being with her is too easy for you, she will not trust you.
Scott Adams
#24. Republicanism was easier to evolve than to define.
Mark A. Noll
#25. No one knows for sure about the future. But if you feel reluctant to plan something about it, then someone with guts would define it for you.
Toba Beta
#26. If we deny the need for thought, Moneo, as some do, we lose the powers of reflection; we cannot define what our senses report. If we deny the flesh, we unwheel the vehicle which bears us. But if we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe. It was emotions which I missed the most.
Frank Herbert
#27. 'Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.
Saul Williams
#30. Politics isn't a reality show or a gong show. It's not show business for ugly people. It's the arena where we define our common life in a rough and ready contest that has winners and losers.
Michael Ignatieff
#31. Are you okay?" I (Cassie) call up to him.
"Um. Define okay." (Ben)
"Okay means you're not bleeding to death."
"I'm okay.
Rick Yancey
#32. It is much easier for me to define what makes a novel French or Russian, but defining the characteristics of an Australian novel are difficult for me as it is all too close - I can't see the woods for the trees.
Robert Dessaix
#33. All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles,and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.
Octavia E. Butler
#36. To define twentieth-century humanism briefly, I would say that it is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity in this natural world and advocating the methods of reason, science, and democracy.
Corliss Lamont
#37. I often thought the most unfair thing about having Moebius wasn't Moebius at all, but other people's inability to define me by anything else.
David Arnold
#38. How we view ourselves and define ourselves is perhaps the most essential paradigm we have as human beings. It determines all of our actions and reactions.
David Clark
#39. I think as human beings we contradict our feelings constantly, we make mistakes, but I think ultimately it comes down to actions to define how we feel about each other.
Charlyne Yi
#40. I am undoubtedly one of the more, if not the most, privileged undocumented immigrants in America. And for us at Define American, which is this culture campaign group that I founded with some friends, culture trumps politics.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#41. People sometimes say that it is "old-fashioned" to define morality based on the Bible, but nothing is more "old- fashioned" than wanting to define right and wrong for ourselves.
Dannah Gresh
#42. I don't define myself by the boys who may or may not like me.
Rick Riordan
#43. Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values.
Henry A. Kissinger
#44. The quality of your thoughts and the state of your mind will define how happy you are as a person. Happiness in your life comes from the way you think!
Sanchita Pandey
#45. We must define quality as conformance to specifications if we are to manage it.
Phil Crosby
#46. I don't define myself as an actor at all. Nor is that my greatest passion in life by any stretch of the imagination.
Shenae Grimes
#47. My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.
Vera Farmiga
#48. Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.
John Updike
#49. Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.
Hermann Weyl
#51. She was the living, breathing proof that the hard things in life didn't have to defeat you - or even define you.
Susan Wiggs
#55. Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.
Rita Mae Brown
#56. Believing, desiring, deciding, and choosing correctly are the simple actions that define an increase in happiness and an increase in the inner assurance that transcends this life.
Benjamin De Hoyos
#57. The reason we need words to define our hearts is that our hearts are lonely, vulnerable, bare and beating things, and sometimes, they do not always know truth unless they hear it.
Amy Lane
#59. As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.
John F. Kennedy
#60. As long as we define ourselves in terms of our pains and problems, we will never be free from them.
Eckhart Tolle
#61. You don't have to define your feelings for me, Ally. Let me do it for you.
S.L. Jennings
#62. The preservation of our national security and the laws that define us as the United States of America demand that we understand the intersection of the two - indeed, how they reinforce one another.
John O. Brennan
#63. Once you find your lane, you can't cruise;
When you define the game, you can't lose.
Ka
#64. Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres obsess upon so-called eternal verities, SF deals with the possibility that our children may have different problems. They may, indeed, be different than we have been.
David Brin
#65. Difficulty is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are.
Paulo Coelho
#66. That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
Freda Adler
#67. Refuse to give up, your mistakes don't define you
They don't dictate where you're headed, they remind you
T.I. Harris
#68. Okay, I'm going. But I want you to know that this thing between us, it's powerful. There's no word to express this new found connection we have, Aria. It's like dividing by zero... you can't define it.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#69. In the beginning we define what is spiritual. But as you go on, you see that everybody and everything is an instrument of infinity.
Frederick Lenz
#70. I'm very attracted to things that I can't define.
Raf Simons
#71. We don't own mission, and it is not ours to define.
Ed Stetzer
#72. Because it is the nature of Dreams, and ONLY of Dreams, to define Reality. Destiny is bound to existence. Death is limited by what she will or will not accept.
Neil Gaiman
#73. Life is nothing but a clump of mud; your thoughts define which statue you can mold out of it.
Debasish Mridha
#74. My atheism doesn't define my day-to-day life at all. But I realize - and maybe it is because, unlike people who sort of stay comfortably in a religion, I had to do a lot of thinking and reading before I realized that I was an atheist.
Susan Jacoby
#76. Films are a part of my being, they don't define me.
Preity Zinta
#77. When forgiveness is necessary, don't wait too long. We must begin to forgive, because without forgiving, we choke off our own joy; we kill our own soul. People carrying hate and resentment can invest themselves so deeply in that resentment that they gradually define themselves in terms of it.
Lewis B. Smedes
#78. Never would I allow my size to define me. Instead I would define it.
Melanie Benjamin
#79. 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
#80. I believe that the time has come for women to take more active roles in all domains of human society, in an age in which education and the capacities of the mind, not physical strength, define leadership. This could help create a more equitable and compassionate society.
Dalai Lama
#82. That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#83. I define my life not by the things I have done, but by the people I have loved.
John Paul Warren
#84. If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
Oprah Winfrey
#85. To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.
Clarence Thomas
#86. In her misery she read a great deal, and discovered that she had lost something she had previously not really know she had: a soul.
What's that? It is easy to define negatively: it is simply that which sneaks off at the mention of algebraic series.
Robert Musil
#87. I feel like people always wanna define me and I don't wanna be defined.
Nicki Minaj
#88. Often our self-esteem is tied to our work. In our culture, men and women often define themselves by the jobs they hold ... But a person's job tells you nothing about a person's character or value.
Billy Graham
#89. Define the limits of your vision: Having this, you will not be poorer Than a man who rules a dukedom.
Su Shi
#90. I'm not interested in living in a world where my race is not a part of who I am. I am interested in living in a world where our races, no matter what they are, don't define our trajectory in life.
Kerry Washington
#91. Where do you draw the line between actions carried out due to an internal need and actions that were nothing more than a slim version of one ceremony or another that help us define our emotions?
Yoav Blum
#92. We do not want to just define issues; we want to help to create solutions
Klaus Schwab
#93. If we define society as a human community, then the transformation of individual attitudes and values represents meaningful social change.
Leslie Weisman
#94. I guess I define myself as a mother, a wife, kind of a nutty person. A good person.
Meredith Vieira
#95. Fear swept in to fill the silence. Fear of disappearing, of the dark, of the unknown. Fear or being somewhere without this love to define him. 'Don't stop talking,' he tried to say.
Tommy Wallach
#96. How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.
Jim McKay
#97. Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.
Theophrastus
#98. The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.
Leo Babauta
#99. Maybe the reason nothing seems to be "fixing you" is because you're not broken. Let today be the day you stop living within the confines of how others define or judge you. You have a unique beauty and purpose; live accordingly.
Steve Maraboli
#100. College life is different, entirely different like you don't have to get ready and wear that red and crisp blue school uniform and look alike every day. Free to define ourselves with statement attire. Good thing.
Parul Wadhwa
