Top 76 What Defines Who You Are Quotes
#1. There's so many things that people do on a daily basis that they do as a way of defining who they are. But really, what defines who you are is when circumstances push you to the edge.
Aisha Hinds
#2. Human beings by their very nature are worshipers. Worship is not something we do; it defines who we are. You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don't. Everybody worships; it's just a matter of what, or whom, we serve.
Paul David Tripp
#3. It is not who you are underneath; it is what you do that defines you
David S.Goyer
#4. 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
#5. It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.
Leon Redbone
#6. 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
#7. What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling
Bob Hoskins
#8. 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
#9. 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
#11. It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.
Jim Abbott
#12. The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA.
Richard Dawkins
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. It's how we deal with the things that hurt us most that defines us.
Jay Crownover
#16. Sometimes our emotions rule us. How we handle the consequences ... defines us.
Kat Bastion
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. It's not who you are underneath, its what you do that defines you.
David S.Goyer
#20. Do you ever feel like you do something or are something for so long that it defines you?
Kasie West
#21. The dictionary defines pride as "pleasure or satisfaction in one's work or achievement." According to that definition a person needs to do something before you can be proud of them. You could not be proud of them simply for who they are. I'm not sure I know what pride in another person feels like.
Francisco X Stork
#22. Our reality defines itself by people who strive for change
Daniel Egger
#23. Remember: it is not about what happens to you, but what you choose to DO WITH what happens to you that truly defines who you are.
Alexandra Silber
#24. It is not who you are underneath but it is what underwear you wear and what you do that defines you
Bruce Wayne
#25. 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
#26. Ego, Identity and Self - the 3 concepts of one's creation that defines them entirely. Have an Ego, for without one, there is nothing but self-doubt. Have an Identity, for without one, there is nothing but an empty shell. Understand your 'Self,' for if you don't, then who or what are you?
Lionel Suggs
#27. Beauty is important, but who you are in your heart defines you better.
Debasish Mridha
#28. Memory is identity ... You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you forget your life you cease to be, even before your death.
Julian Barnes
#29. This is America - you're allowed to say and do what you want and what you say and do defines who you are as a person.
Lee DeWyze
#30. I know what you are, but I also know who you are too. And the 'who' is the part that defines us.
Amalie Howard
#31. For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.
Davis Bunn
#32. 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
#33. How often you impress people when you have nothing and how often you oppress them when you have everything is what defines your real character!
Israelmore Ayivor
#34. Life ... Isn't a roller coaster, it isn't unexpected or surprising. It's not a free ticket to go along for the ride ... Simply put, Life is life. Its who you are, what you do that defines you and your life, so choose ... but choose wisely, because life is here to stay ...
Bilal Hussain
#35. Once you embrace that WHO you are defines you, you can conquer the world. What matters is what's in your heart, what your goals are and what kind of life you want to lead.
Shantel VanSanten
#36. The first quote that goes through your mind is what you have been conditioned to think. What you think next defines who you are.
Anonymous
#37. Do one heroic thing today; big or small doesn't matter because it defines who you are and what you really believe
Bob Goff
#38. What you invest your time in defines who you are.
Todd Duncan
#39. Look at a guy like Ian McKellen, who is eighty or whatever, and he's just loving his work, and you can see that in the work. That defines what type of actor you are. And what kind of people want to work with you. And whether you can do this job for a long, long time.
Jason Clarke
#40. 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
#41. You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.
Marc Maron
#42. 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
#43. 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
#45. It's the way we deal with what Fate hands us that defines who we are.
Lisa Graff
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. Class is not defined by our circumstances - it is our reaction to those circumstances that defines who we are.
Jordan Christy
#49. 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
#50. It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot
Ron Paul
#51. 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
#52. Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.
Pranab Mukherjee
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. Without doubt, in animation each frame is important, every movement defines the character.
Lucrecia Martel
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
Zadie Smith
#64. How YOU see yourself - not anyone else - is the thing that defines you.
Francesca Martinez
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. What defines you as a person is not the life you were born in to, but what you made of it.
Shahid Kapoor
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
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