Your Past Doesn't Define You Quotes

#1. Your past doesn't define you. Only your present and your future. If your life is screwed up, stop making excuses. What are you going to do about it today?

Ingrid Weir

#2. I think that his description of modern society is profound, with great insights, but it is too unilateral. He doesn't see that I define the modern world essentially as deprived of sacrificial protection, that is, more and more exposed to violence. For

Continuum

#3. If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one day and expect to eat the next, it is not even intelligent, let alone civilized.

Sting

#4. Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

Ani DiFranco

#5. Your career doesn't define you

Lili Wilkinson

#6. Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.

Dale Archer

#7. I don't think you can define how you acquire your imagination any more than you can define why one person has a sense of humor and another doesn't. But I certainly would lean to the side that says all those solitary hours of daydreaming were a kind of training for poetry.

James Tate

#8. If my dancing is a disaster - it doesn't define me as a person.

Jennifer Grey

#9. It doesn't matter who you are, what you do, or where you live, everybody struggles from time to time. It's not the struggles that define you; it's how you overcome them.

Brandi Glanville

#10. Football isn't who we are, it doesn't necessarily define us. It's part of our life and it always will be, but football won't define us. Excellence does.

Eric Dickerson

#11. I don't really care if people think I'm good-looking or not; it doesn't define me as a person.

Genesis Rodriguez

#12. Financial Success doesn't define value.

Anthony Labson

#13. Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.

Merle Shain

#14. I love L.A. I always have such a great time in L.A. The way I kind of define me and L.A. is the noise of the factory doesn't let me sleep well.

Alfonso Cuaron

#15. You can't define the ache that's in George's voice. It's just something inherently him. It doesn't need definition. It doesn't need clarification. It doesn't need a lot of things. You just sit back and appreciate it. It's just greatness.

Vince Gill

#16. A guy isn't the only thing that will make me happy. If I never find romance or love, that will be okay. It's what I want, but it doesn't define me.

Kim Kardashian

#17. Here's how I define "stuff": anything you have allowed into your psychological or physical world that doesn't belong where it is, but for which you haven't yet determined what, exactly, it means to you, with the desired outcome and the next action step.

David Allen

#18. Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.

Alyson Noel

#19. Our past doesn't define us, rather, it's the courses we take after that tells us who we really are.

Jocelyn Sanchez

#20. Best quote page 239: The past doesn't disappear, but it doesn't have to define your future. That's up to you.

Anna Jarzab

#21. It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.

Carolyn Mackler

#22. Your race doesn't define you. -Richard

S.M. Boyce

#23. Don't let the fear of failure or failure as a whole stop you from becoming an entrepreneur. Failure doesn't define you or your business unless you allow it to.

Jeet Banerjee

#24. One mistake doesn't define you, Julian.

R.J. Palacio

#25. Anyone can get a degree or a certificate in something. Big deal. A piece of paper from a university somewhere doesn't define a person. It won't tell you who I am.

Rachel Gibson

#26. Scholars and enlightened always want to define the differences between communism, socialism, fascism and other economic or political systems. It really doesn't matter to those who are subjected to those societies how someone has articulated their misery.

Jake Danishevsky

#27. Your color doesn't define your brain nor your soul. You can stand next to any human being and challenge that person as long as you use your brain.

Angelique Kidjo

#28. God's given me so much talent, and my height doesn't define my skill set. I believe that God has given me a right arm, and for some reason, even though I'm 5'11, to be able to make the throws and make great decisions on the field and all that.

Russell Wilson

#29. Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there. You know, it doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define, but there you are, right there, in the meantime.

Ani DiFranco

#30. The past doesn't define you, your present does. It's okay to create a vision of the future because it affects your behavior in the "now," but don't dwell on past mistakes. Learn from them and focus those lessons in the moment. That's where change can really happen.

Jillian Michaels

#31. Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.

Sabaa Tahir

#32. You define beauty for yourself, society doesn't define your beauty. Your spirit and your faith defines your beauty.

Lady Gaga

#33. My job doesn't define my kids in any way. When we go to places, it's about them and it's about us as a family. I think they're proud of me, but I'm just Dad.

Steve Carell

#34. All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.

Mark Hoppus

#35. Your past doesn't define who you are. Biography isn't Destiny.

Kathryn Perez

#36. I consider myself to be a true friend of the Israeli people. But I define friendship as someone who takes care of a friend, who just doesn't use or exploit a friend. And, you know, there's that old adage: 'Friends don't let friends drive drunk'.

Scott Ritter

#37. I've realized now that our world doesn't define us. We define our world. And I hope you'll fill yours with as much light and happiness as you can.

Shannon Messenger

#38. When you judge a woman by her appearance, it doesn't define her, it defines you. Ladies, never allow yourself to be defined by someone's inability to appreciate your unique beauty.

Steve Maraboli