Top 87 We Are Defined By Quotes
#1. Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.
A.S. Byatt
#2. To some extent, we are all labeled by what we're able to achieve. But more importantly, we are defined by what we attempt.
Scott Tinley
#3. People say we are defined by the choices that we make;
T. Greenwood
#4. Our failures make us who we are; they build our character, we are defined by what we do with them, and how we respond to adversity. Without failure there is no growth, no striving for better, no adjusting, or dusting yourself off to try again.
J.W. Lord
#5. If we are defined by what we have lost, James and I will never really be found.
Kiersten White
#6. we are defined by what we believe in
Hlovate
#7. We are defined by what we believe in. Identity is shaped by what we believe is right. Culture is cultured, pun intended; by what we believe is right.
Hlovate
#8. We are defined by how we choose to exist. Responsibility towards and contribution to society is part of how we make a difference. Every human being wants to make a difference; one of the ways we might do this is through our contribution to communities .
Sameh Elsayed
#9. We are defined by our enemies - but also we can choose them. Make an enemy of hatred, Jorg. Do that and you could be a great man, but more importantly, maybe a happy one. There's
Mark Lawrence
#10. We are most fully ourselves when we admit that we are emotional beings, that we are defined by the ways we find though our behavior to express all these myriad emotions constantly bubbling beneath the surface of us as we try our fragile best to reason our way through the world.
Greg M. Epstein
#12. We are defined by our dignity to rise above debasement. We are certainly better people for doing so.
Corey Taylor
#13. We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how e get back up
Madeleine Black
#14. So often we are defined by what we've done
and the mistakes we've made
For once I would like to be
Measured by the steps I took today
Rather than the footprints of yesterday
Samantha King
#16. We are defined by the places we hold in the web of others' lives.
Ken Liu
#17. We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.
Tony Robbins
#18. Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret. We are defined by the objects of our regret.
Stephen Tobolowsky
#19. If our sense of who we are is defined by feelings of neediness and insecurity, we forget that we are also curious, humorous and caring. We forget about the breath that is nourishing us, the love that unites us, the enormous beauty and fragility that is our shared experience in being alive.
Tara Brach
#20. When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.
Tullian Tchividjian
#21. So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make ... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.
Kristin Bauer Van Straten
#22. Are we defined by where we want to go or where we've been?
Joe Coomer
#23. It is hard to dispute the evidence that we are a race defined to a significant degree by our pettiness, by how vicious our desire is to keep track, to compare, to win.
Christine Sneed
#24. To live originally is to live authentically, to not be defined by culture or environment, to be truly oneself. We do not want to ignore culture. We live in it; but we need not be defined by it. Living originally, we are in the world but we are not of the world.
Robert Brumet
#25. We are leashed by societal norms, defined by our willingness to conform, but limited only by our imagination.
Michael Holbrook
#26. We were defined by what we did. What we had to do.
I think this is why guys like football, and why they join the army, because as long as you are playing the game or following orders you do not have to figure out who you really are.
Pete Hautman
#29. In solitude, at last, we're able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined - by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence
Richard Rohr
#30. We are at a turning point; the exploitation has now reached a pitch where the disenfranchised and exploited can look to a culpable minority with vengeful eyes. This minority, though, cannot be defined by the color of their skin but by the color of their god. Green.
Russell Brand
#31. Are we defined by our choices? Our behavior? Our actions? No. I don't believe that defines our worth.
Nadya Suleman
#32. Quite often, most of us are defined first by our vital statistics - our sex, our height, our weight, the colour of our eyes and then we're defined by our job.
Tom Hiddleston
#33. Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.
Michael Josephson
#34. Our lives are defined by fear from the very time we are born to the time we bid adieu to this material world.
Faraaz Kazi
#35. Magick" has been defined as the Science and Art of causing change to occur in conformity with Will. By this definition any willed act is a magical act. We are all magicians. We either perform our magick efficiently or inefficiently.
Christopher S. Hyatt
#36. We are defined and controlled by all that we have not transcended.
Adi Da
#37. We must not be defined by what we do, but we must be what and who we are, then only happen to do what we do!
C. JoyBell C.
#38. I want to design for the working women. Okay well - it sounds like 90% of us are that. But really, we are more. We are working women who like to cook, to travel; we are a girlfriend, a writer. We are so much more than just being defined by the one job we have.
Sarah Lafleur
#39. We are not defined by our individual loneliness, but by the web of relationships in which we're enmeshed.
Ken Liu
#40. The truth is, we are part of something greater than our own personal preferences or felt needs. We are part of a worldwide family of believers who belong to each other with a history and a heritage defined by a loving heavenly Father.
Ross Parsley
#41. The word worship is defined by glory and thanksgiving. We are worshiping when we give glory to something. Whatever we give glory to, we sacrifice for.
Jefferson Bethke
#42. Human beings are primarily defined by what we desire, not what we know.
David Brooks
#43. We are defined not by our borders but by our bonds.
Barack Obama
#44. As designers we are influenced both consciously and subconsciously by everything we see around ourselves. Still, we always must try to avoid anything that has been defined as the latest and greatest "trend" in design.
Jeff Fisher
#45. a person's life can't be defined by one incident. We are the whole of our experiences. We are the warp, and life is the weft, going up and down around us, transforming us in its wake. Each new line adds to the whole . . . adds to our strength.
Holly Jacobs
#46. We are individual designs in the fabric of life. We have our own integrity, but simultaneously we are part of the fabric, connected to and defined by the whole. Community is the human dimension of that fabric.
Tom Atlee
#47. I know we are raised to believe that our lives are defined by being chosen or not being chosen, but I'm starting to think there's another truth we're missing
Rachelle Dekker
#48. Some say that our lives are defined by the sum of our choices. But it isn't really our choices that distinguish who we are. It's our commitment to them.
Emily Thorne
#49. We are not defined by belief or by faith nor religion.We are the family of God.
Ellen J. Barrier
#50. I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?
Paige Bradley
#51. Our future paths are defined by how we turned and walked the road in the past.
Kat Lahr
#52. As we transform ourselves into creatures of the screen, we face an existential question: Does our essence still lie in what we know, or are we now content to be defined by what we want? If we don't grapple with that question ourselves, our gadgets will be happy to answer it for us.
Deborah Blum
#53. If beauty is truth, and truth is beauty, they are defined by each other, so how do we know the meaning of either?
Ava Dellaira
#54. We are not defined by our lack of fear - Dad had said, smiling as Ethan let our four-year-old brother tackle him - but rather by what we choose to do when facing the nightmare.
Courtney Alameda
#55. People are defined by their relationships. Every single one is a thread in our mind that wraps neatly to make the nest of emotions we live in. Two of those threads- at the very core of my nest- had snapped and now I felt nothing.
Anoosha Lalani
#56. Though our collective level of knowledge may always be defined by a certain set of answers, we are never limited by the questions we may pose.
Todd William
#57. We are not defined by our mistakes, but how we react to them and the life journey we create despite of them.
Jacquitta A. McManus
#58. We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not just the democratic posting of images but the democratic interpretation of images.
Gilles Peress
#59. I believe that in this life, we are defined not by the station in life into which we are born, nor by our pedigree, race, or religion, but by the choices we make.
Robin McGraw
#60. The personality is defined by its inconsistencies, not its consistencies. It's what makes us unique and who we are.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#61. Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
Dallas Willard
#62. Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone ...
Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness.
Brennan Manning
#64. In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.
Allison Pearson
#65. We see and hear about Israelis and Palestinians only when they are defined by the global media as 'occupiers,' 'terrorists,' and 'victims.' But we forget that they are fathers and mothers and sons and daughters and neighbors and doctors and shop-owners and farmers and students.
Jason Alexander
#66. We are defined not so much by what we're reading, as by what we're reading next.
Julia Keller
#67. Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.
Eric Roth
#68. The entire notion of being defined by the crap you bring into your minds, bodies and souls, rather than what you produce with your mind, body and soul is a glaring offense to everything we are here to do on this beautiful blue ball of a planet.
Michael Tallon
#69. We are made by the choices we make. We are defined, not by how or where we were born but what we make out of the "where" and "how"; not much of how we started but more of how we decide to end.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#70. Class is not defined by our circumstances - it is our reaction to those circumstances that defines who we are.
Jordan Christy
#71. Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest achievement. We have to turn that around.
Jewell Jackson McCabe
#72. We live in a day of abounding vagueness and indistinctness on doctrinal subjects in religion. Now, if ever, it is the duty of all advocates of clear, well-defined, sharply-cut theology, to supply proof that their views are thoroughly borne out by Scripture.
J.C. Ryle
#73. We're not to do everything man tells us to do. We are to obey the Lord Jesus Christ, and our allegiance to the state is limited and defined by our superior allegiance to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Joseph C. Morecraft III
#74. I think women have long been defined by their roles as procreators and wives, and we're expected to serve, take care of, say 'Yes,' and not ruffle any feathers. Women, in particular, are sometimes not allowed to consider who they are outside of the roles that they play.
Carrie Coon
#75. I think you can do something bad, and it doesn't make you a bad person. We are not defined by any one choice. We are the sum of our experiences, and we can make a bad choice and turn around and do better.
Jessica Capshaw
#77. As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.
Dan O'Brien
#78. We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become.
Tori Spelling
#79. We are not defined as much by our reproductive organs, as we are by how we feel about them.
Michael Makai
#80. That our lives are not defined by what we've lost but by all that returns, fresh and new.
Christie Purifoy
#81. We are born among relatives. Family is defined by loyalty.
Dan Groat
#82. We aren't just defined by who we are, but by who are friends are. It's funny that we put so much importance on something that wont mean shit once we graduate.
Shaun David Hutchinson
#83. We are not defined by our past but are rather being prepared by our past.
Rick Martinez
#84. Keep your life in a positive perspective. We are not defined by our pasts
Ray J
#85. truly good life is defined not by the material things we try to fill ourselves with but by the spiritual and emotional things that we are already filled with. These things lead to a constant state of happiness.
Adam Houge
#86. We are not defined by our species any more than our nationality or our gender. What we do , our choices, that's what defines us.
Carrie Jones
#87. I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can't change.
Simon Van Booy
