We Are Not Defined Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. We are not defined by our individual loneliness, but by the web of relationships in which we're enmeshed.

Ken Liu

#4. We are not defined by belief or by faith nor religion.We are the family of God.

Ellen J. Barrier

#5. 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

#6. We are not defined by our limits, but by our potential,

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#7. 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

#8. We are not defined by our past but are rather being prepared by our past.

Rick Martinez

#9. Keep your life in a positive perspective. We are not defined by our pasts

Ray J

#10. 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

#11. We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how e get back up

Madeleine Black

#12. 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

#13. We are not defined as much by our reproductive organs, as we are by how we feel about them.

Michael Makai

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Some one has defined a work of art as a "thing beautifully done." I like it better if we cut away the adverb and preserve the word "done," and let it stand alone in its fullest meaning. Things are not done beautifully. The beauty is an integral part of their being done.

Robert Henri

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Success could be defined as the ability to go on persevering even when it seems that there are no possibilities left. Each failure is not truly a failure, just another possibility explored and found wanting. We never truly run out of possibilities for success, just imagination to find them.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#20. It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defined in terms of time or have any relation to time. But notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.

Baruch Spinoza

#21. 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

#22. We are defined and controlled by all that we have not transcended.

Adi Da

#23. We are defined not by our borders but by our bonds.

Barack Obama

#24. Human beings are primarily defined by what we desire, not what we know.

David Brooks

#25. 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.

#26. 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

#27. That our lives are not defined by what we've lost but by all that returns, fresh and new.

Christie Purifoy

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. The personality is defined by its inconsistencies, not its consistencies. It's what makes us unique and who we are.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#34. We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.

William McDonough

#35. We are defined not so much by what we're reading, as by what we're reading next.

Julia Keller

#36. 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

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

Jordan Christy