What Defines Us Quotes

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

Bob Hoskins

#2. 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

#3. Meddling is what we do. It's what defines us. Meddling gave us fire and tools and civilisation and the keys to the universe. Fingers will get burnt along the way, yes. That's the way of it.

Alastair Reynolds

#4. Our past is what shapes us, the scars it leaves behind mold us, and what we do with the shit that's left over is what defines us.

Gail McHugh

#5. What matters isn't what you are, it's who you are, right now, in this moment. What matters are the choices we make. That's what defines us. Nothing else.

Nicholas Kaufmann

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

Sarah Addison Allen

#7. In short, liturgies make us certain kinds of people, and what defines us is what we love.

James K.A. Smith

#8. What defines us is not how we fall but how we land.

Pam Godwin

#9. Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

Mike Norton

#10. Everyone has their weaknesses. What defines us is being able to acknowledge them and still find our strengths too.

Rebecca Espinoza

#11. What defines us is not our ability to never let them break us-what defines us is not letting them own us.

Sara Raasch

#12. What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.

John Piper

#13. 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

#14. No one can be responsible for where or how we each begin. No one has the freedom to do anything or everything, and all choices bring consequences. What we choose to do next, though, how to spend our resources or attention or effort, this is what defines us.

Seth Godin

#15. It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.

Yuri Milner

#16. We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.

Angela Merkel

#17. What defines us is how well we rise after we fall.

Zig Ziglar

#18. If blood alone is what defines us, no child born is born in freedom.

Nalini Singh

#19. We all have to escape from this thing called life sometimes. Maybe we use substances to do it. Maybe we use religion. Maybe we use exercise. Maybe we use anger. But we all have to do it. *How* we do it is what defines us.

Dan Pearce

#20. Equality, absolutely, that's what defines us. It's what makes us great. If it doesn't sit well with your religion, let your God sort it out in the end, but that's us. We're equal

Brad Pitt

#21. And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.

Mitt Romney

#22. 'V-Wars' is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human.

Jonathan Maberry

#23. ...it is what we strive to do, not what we chance to accomplish, that defines us.

Jim Riley

#24. Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity.

Laura Schlessinger

#25. What defines greatness is when you hold all the records and what you mean to your fans, on and off the field, because that is who ranks you as the greatest receiver of all-time. The guy that holds all the records, the guy that has set the stage for all of us, you have to give it to Jerry Rice.

Donald Driver

#26. Whatever title or office we may be privileged to hold, it is what we do that defines who we are ... Each of us must decide what kind of person we want to be-what kind of legacy that we want to pass on.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#27. We all have control over what kind of person we are. Each word that comes out, each action that we take, defines us.

Ruth Cardello

#28. It's our own ability to have an idea and go after the idea and make it happen. That's what at the end of the day defines us.

Satya Nadella

#29. We all lose sometimes. We fail to get what we want. Friends and loved ones leave. We make a decision we regret. We try our hardest and come up short. It's not the losing that defines us. It's how we lose. It's what we do afterward.

Scott Jurek

#30. Lucy said, The law is an adversarial contest that defines justice as staying within the rules and seeing the game to its conclusion. Justice is reaching a conclusion. It has very little to do with right and wrong. The law gives us order. Only men and women can give us what you want to call justice.

Robert Crais

#31. We all make mistakes, Steele. It's what we do afterward that defines us more than the actual incident that led to the mistake. (Joe)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#32. With material wealth and in a culture where many of us defines our self-worth by what we have and what we own and what we achieve, it's very hard to comprehend that there are enclaves all over our big country in which people are very purposefully choosing to maintain different values.

Debra Granik

#33. We all have a different answer to what defines our happiness and fulfillment, but for all of us it begins with inner peace. Without inner peace, happiness and fulfillment is hard to reach.

Ron Baratono

#34. When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are grows.

Mark Nepo

#35. What we pay attention to defines us,

Anonymous

#36. You are what you do. That's what I'm trying to tell you. What we do defines us. However we behave, conduct our lives ... that's real. The rest is a story for publication.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#37. Pain prompts us to face who we are and where we are. What we do with that experience defines who we become.

John C. Maxwell

#38. It's okay to screw up. It's what we do afterward that defines us.

Susan Mallery

#39. It isn't what we lose that defines us. It's what we refuse to release." Janeway

Kirsten Beyer

#40. I know what you are, but I also know who you are too. And the 'who' is the part that defines us.

Amalie Howard

#41. What is suffering? I'm not sure what it is, but I know that suffering is the name we give to the origin of all the sighs, screams, and groans - small and large, crude and multifaceted - that concern us. The word defines our gaze even more than what we are looking at.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#42. We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and time is supposed to measure history, isn't it? But if we can't understand time, can't grasp its mysteries of pace and progress, what chance do we have with history
even our own small, personal, largely undocumented piece of it?

Julian Barnes

#43. What often appears to destroy us is what eventually defines us and takes us to a better place.

Mike Coe

#44. Life is a broken thing. It's what we do with the pieces that defines us.

Corban Addison

#45. What we have, what we go through - defines us. Makes us. Changes us, whether for better or worse, it crafts who we are.

Ronie Kendig

#46. It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

Jane Austen

#47. What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone's library is like peeking into their DNA

Guillermo Del Toro

#48. 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

#49. 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

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

Lisa Graff