Quotes About What Defines Me

#1. If I had to explain what Zane was for me he would be the edge pieces of the puzzle. He is what holds me together, but not what defines me.

Megan L. Wieand

#2. 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

#3. HIV is not what defines me. You get that? It is not what defines me. I am not my disease. I am a human being. A guy

J.H. Trumble

#4. The dephness of my skin is heriditory.
the hugh of my skin is what defines me.
the color of my skin is what God gave me.
for the radience of my skin, I am not ashamed.
yes, i am black, dark and beautiful.
and underneath this mask,
i feel comfortable in my own skin.

Angela Khristin Brown

#5. I'm not saying that being gay is what defines me, but at the same time, if you feel like you have to hide it, then it becomes what defines you. You keep it hidden, and the secret becomes you.

Alan Ball

#6. I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it.

Daley Thompson

#7. I'm grateful for my family: that's what defines me; that's what makes me whole.

Jane Clayson

#8. I hate to lose but having the belt doesn't define who I am. It's how I live my life and what I put into things is what defines me.

Urijah Faber

#9. I must be very clear in one thing ... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

Joyce Giraud

#10. I feel like regardless of whether or not I win this award or I win that award or I don't win this award - I'm still Sam at the end of the day. And that's what defines me.

Sam Bradford

#11. This law ... defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war.

Daniel Quinn

#12. 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

#13. What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling

Bob Hoskins

#14. The challenges and how we deal with them: that's what defines us.
Problems don't define us; it's our ability to overcome and transform.

Jared Leto

#15. Plato defines melody to consist of harmony, number and words: harmony naked of itself, words the ornament of harmony, number the common friend and uniter of them both.

John Dowland

#16. Every action in the present defines future possibilities.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.

Jim Abbott

#18. The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA.

Richard Dawkins

#19. 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

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

Jay Crownover

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

Kat Bastion

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

David S.Goyer

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

Kasie West

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

Davis Bunn

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

Daniel Egger

#29. The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

Max Barry

#30. What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#31. What you do with your time alive defines you, Reader, but hear me, I beg you, when I say that you are not done being defined.

Daniel Kraus

#32. To me, what defines a New Yorker is the edge that one develops from having actually lived here. Once you have it, it doesn't go away, and everywhere else in the world feels like it is in slow motion.

Donald Trump Jr.

#33. What kind of dining set defines me as a person?

Chuck Palahniuk

#34. It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.

Sarah Addison Allen

#35. Knowing your purpose simplifies your life. It defines what you do and what you don't do. Your purpose becomes the standard you use to evaluate which activities are essential and which aren't. You simply ask, "Does this activity help me fulfill one of God's purposes for my life?

Rick Warren

#36. What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

Douglas Coupland

#37. It is not what happens to me in life that defines how happy or sad I am but what I believe about it.

Bebhinn Ramsay

#38. It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.

Leon Redbone

#39. I am all about health ... and to me, size is not what defines your health.

Teri Hatcher

#40. What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several cultural traditions. It is precisely this that defines my identity. Would I exist more authentically if I cut off a part of myself

Amin Maalouf

#41. It's very easy to leave when things go wrong, but to stick around and to basically give life to a town because of everything that it gave you generation after generation after generation, that to me is what defines a true American.

Christian Bale

#42. To me, it's all about saying "thank you" before you open the gift box. At times, the gift wrap is so beautiful, all I want to do is admire the craftsmanship before very carefully pulling back the tape to see what's inside. I think that pretty much defines how I see people in general.

Jes Fuhrmann

#43. It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.

Christian Bale

#44. That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.

G. Willow Wilson

#45. You don't have a monopoly on pain or loss. It's a level playing field - we all lose - we all grieve. It's what remains afterwards that defines us. Guilt is the poison we pump into our own veins. It's self-inflicted torture.

R.W. Patterson

#46. 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

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

Marc Maron

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. Belief defines reality

Michael R. Fletcher

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

Lisa Graff

#52. 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

#53. 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

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

Jordan Christy

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

Ron Paul

#56. 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

#57. 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

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

Pranab Mukherjee

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. 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

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

Zadie Smith

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

Francesca Martinez

#69. 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

#70. 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

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

Shahid Kapoor

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to take expected opposition personally. They would not allow grudges to get in the way of more important business.

Chris Matthews

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. 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

#80. 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