Top 34 Quotes About Defining Moments

#1. I had one of those defining moments in the fourth grade when my teacher said the story I wrote was the best in the class, and therefore I would be going Young Authors Conference where I'd get to hang out with authors all day.

Lisa McMann

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#2. But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter what sort of a state we're in.

Darren Shan

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#3. There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

Jeffrey Archer

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#4. Though events set up the defining moments which can evoke profiles in righteousness, outward commotions cannot excuse any failure of inward resolve, even if some seem to unravel so easily.

Neal A. Maxwell

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#5. I always thought that I would spend the first half of my life making money so I can spend the second half of my life giving it all away. And one of the defining moments of my life was when I realized that I could do both at the same time with TOMS.

Blake Mycoskie

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#6. One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

Roger Ebert

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#7. No one gets an easy pass in life. We all meet struggles while pursuing our dreams. Sometimes our knees shake when facing giants, and sometimes our feet get knocked out from under us. Those are defining moments.

Jake Byrne

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#8. These are defining moments ... while the pain maybe greater ... the joy maybe greater.

M Carithers

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#9. I have come to believe that the defining moments of most lives are not acts of courage or greatness, rather they are the simple acts: expressions of virtue or vice that are tossed carelessly like seeds from a farmer's hand, leaving their fruits to be revealed at a future date.

Richard Paul Evans

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#10. I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

Sam Taylor-Wood

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#11. There are no defining moments. There are only your moments to define.

Thomas B. Dowd III

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#12. We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They're all refining moments. You're constantly refining yourself and refining your life.

Sheryl Crow

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#13. Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics.

Daphne Guinness

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#14. It becomes one of those defining moments in your life, when your mother does that

Melina Marchetta

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#15. In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear.

James Arthur Ray

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#16. People have defining moments, i suppose, especially when they're children.

Markus Zusak

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#17. Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.

Richard Pound

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#18. Instead of setting goals, seek defining moments. Those are the real tests, because you have to be willing to fail in a pressure situation in front of other people.

Hugh Jackman

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#19. The truer measure of sacrifice isn't so much what one gives to sacrifice as what one sacrifices to give. Faith isn't tested so much when the cupboard is full as when it is bare. In these defining moments, the crisis doesn't create one's characterit reveals it.

Lynn G. Robbins

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#20. We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward.

Robert Kiyosaki

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#21. 10Xers distinguish themselves by an ability to recognize defining moments that call for disrupting their plans, changing the focus of their intensity, and/or rearranging their agenda, because of opportunity or peril, or both.

James C. Collins

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#22. We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over.

John Bevere

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#23. I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

Adam Savage

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#24. Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of shorter periods such as moments, days, or years? And to what extent are virtue and happiness linked?

Sissela Bok

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#25. Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.

Ravi Zacharias

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#26. Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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#27. Lives are made of strings of moments, and every once in a while, one of those moments is pivotal and defining. It changes everything, alters you so completely that when you look back, there's a clear before and after

Elizabeth Norris

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#28. Grads need to remember that it's [showcases] just a jumping off point for their career, not the defining moment.

Rachel Hoffman

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#29. Rarely if ever, moments come that are so defining in our lives. The years are glutted with benign matters which impact us more deeply than we could have ever imagined in our youth.

Joel T. McGrath

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#30. Magical moments,defining incidents,people who have made a difference to us....some of these change the course of life.I enjoy reliving these off and on to remind myself to look out for empowering moments,magical happenings and people who influence meaningfully.Try it,it is heartening and powerful

Abha Maryada Banerjee

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#31. When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.

Kevin Costner

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#32. That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.

Neil Young

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#33. Press on. Your defining moment may arrive just when you feel surrounded by adversity.

David Cottrell

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#34. Movies have a way of distilling moments in our culture, and 'Gravity' may be the defining film for the lost-in-space year of 2013: Nothing works.

David Ignatius

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