When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you. — Kevin Costner
The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses. — Charles Sanders Peirce
Never let anyone define you. You are the only person who defines you. No one can speak for you. Only you speak for you. You are your only voice. — Terry Crews
You draw your own box. You introduce yourself as who you are… You create the identity you want for yourself. — Meghan Markle
You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage. — H. Rap Brown
Who you are is not defined by what you do, but it is defined according to who Jesus is to you — Carl Lentz
Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time. — Cheri Huber
Your choices define you. Don’t let fear be the definition. — Tom Bilyeu
Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are. — Gianni Versace
Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for. — Mark Manson
Always take a stand for yourself, your values. You're defined by what you stand for — Oprah Winfrey
I don't like defining myself. I just am. — Britney Spears
Top 10 Define You Quotes
You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you. — Barack Obama
Beauty is not defined by the clothes you wear or the makeup on your face BUT by the way you carry your struggles with smiles, hard work & love — Lauren Jauregui
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome. — Maya Angelou
Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives. — Michelle Obama
Don't let others define you. Don't let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be. — Michael Josephson
When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you. — Dr. Seuss
You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious. — Lynn Viehl
Refuse to give up, your mistakes don't define you.
They don't dictate where you're headed, they remind you. — T.I.
If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it. — Hugh Hefner
The chances you take… the people you meet… the people you love...the faith that you have - that’s what’s going to define your life. — Denzel Washington
Define You Image Quotes
Don't let the past steal your present. Your past has not defined, deterred or defeated you. It has only strengthened who you are today.
Don't Let Others Define You Quotes
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
Whether you are buying a car or casting a ballot, choosing a job or planning a family, follow your moral compass. Don't let others define you. Don't let advertisers mold you; don't let zealots ensnare you; don't let conventional wisdom trap you....you are part of a much larger whole. — Denis Hayes
You are the author of your own life...Don't let others define it for you. Real power comes by doing what you are meant to be doing, and doing it well. — Oprah Winfrey
Accept no one's definition of your life, define yourself.
Don't let the opinions of others define who you are. Take them into consideration, make adjustments if necessary and then go be you! — Garrison Wynn
You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script. — Oprah Winfrey
Define Yourself Quotes
You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are. — Eckhart Tolle
All negotiations are defined by a network of subterranean desires and needs. Don’t let yourself be fooled by the surface. Once you know that the Haitian kidnappers just want party money, you will be miles better prepared. — Chris Voss
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. — Harvey Fierstein
My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me, it has only strengthened me.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. — Harvey Fierstein
The level of effort you tolerate from yourself will define your life. — Tom Bilyeu
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. — Henry Rollins
I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person
Don’t ever sell yourself short. Stand tall. Never be ashamed of who you are. You are beautiful, you are loved. You are needed. You are worth it. Promise me you won’t forget that. Promise me you won’t let your scars define who you are. Let your trials shape you. Let your victories humble you. — Jennifer Nettles
We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests. — Sheryl Sandberg
Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about. — Tom Chappell
Valuing time with your family does not mean you've lost your ambition. Define success for yourself. — Claire Shipman
Life Define Quotes
I think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your own terms. A lot of what feminism is about is moving outside of roles and moving outside of expectations of who and what you're supposed to be to live a more authentic life. — Laverne Cox
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. — Anne Frank
Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one’s life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being. — Walter Brueggemann
Don't let pain define you, let it refine you.
Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary. — Peter Agre
I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species. — Marlon Brando
At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life. — Anthony Kennedy
Two things define you : Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have everything.
Simply keeping people alive — decades after their lives have become defined by pain, disease, frailty, and immobility — is no virtue. — David Sinclair
I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself. — Walter Anderson
With peaks of joy and valleys of heartache, life is a roller coaster ride that's both scary and exciting at the same time - the rise and fall of which defines our journey. — SebastiAn
Defining Myself Quotes
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. — Audre Lorde
I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth. — Sonia Sotomayor
What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several cultural traditions. It is precisely this that defines my identity. Would I exist more authentically if I cut off a part of myself — Amin Maalouf
We must not allow others' limited perceptions to define us.
Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face. — Carol Moseley Braun
One of the most important things for any leader is to never let anyone else define who you are. And you define who you are. I never think of myself as being a woman CEO of this company. I think of myself as a steward of a great institution. — Ginni Rometty
When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself. — Paul Ryan
Society is not only defined by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.
But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist. — Barbara Kruger
With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling. — Britney Spears
Sometimes at night I slipped into the studio and worked myself up into a rhythmic intoxication to come closer to the slowly rising character. I could feel how everything pointed toward a clearly defined dance figure. The richness of rhythmic ideas was overwhelming — Mary Wigman
I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way. — Kathy Bates
Describe Yourself Quotes
Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. — Steven Biko
I've always described my taste in fashion and music as being very eclectic and uniquely based off my feelings that day. That's the wonderful thing about style. You can be whatever you want to be. You can describe yourself however you want to describe yourself. — Hayden Panettiere
The feeling you get from playing to a good audience is hard to describe without sounding as though you are talking silly. But reaction is important. You might feel in yourself that you're doing it ok but it's when you get the live reaction that you know you're doing it right. — Tony Iommi
I think it's very healthy to spend time alone .You need to know how to be alone and not defined by another person .
You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described. — Douglas Hofstadter
Describing yourself by your earthly nativity is carnality. Being born again, your nativity is of divinity. — Chris Oyakhilome
It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative. — Jesse Helms
Judging a person does not define who they are... it defines who you are.
If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it. — Victoria Moran
They both seemed to understand that describing it was beyond their powers, the gratitude that spreads through your body when a burden gets lifted, and the sense of homecoming that follows, when you suddenly remember what it feels like to be yourself. — Tom Perrotta
When you're a woman in your thirties, and maybe you don't really know what you want to do with your life, but it seems like everyone else does, and your best friend gets married, and it forces you to look at yourself. I don't know if I described that in a very funny way. — Kristen Wiig
As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up. — Tom Hanks
Self Define Quotes
Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment. — Edgar Schein
The more people participate in the process of their own education, and the more people participate in defining what kind of production to produce, and for what and why, the more people participate in the development of their selves. The more people become themselves, the better the democracy. — Paulo Freire
Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning. — Karen Horney
One thing that defines humans: if we can imagine it, we can do it.
Happiness is a skill that everyone has the ability to cultivate and develop. One of the problems we face in our quest for happiness is that we have not actually defined what it means for us. — Rangan Chatterjee
For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with. — Charley Pride
When you believe the work before you is the single piece that will forever define you, it’s difficult to let go. The urge for perfection is overwhelming. It’s too much. We are frozen, and sometimes ends up convincing ourselves that discarding the entire work is the only way to move forward. — Rick Rubin
What happened to the joyful, calm infant who simply enjoyed the moment with whatever it had to offer? Gone. Swamped by the constant urge to define an ever-evolving identity. — Mo Gawdat
We define ourselves far too often by our past failures. That’s not you. You are this person right now. You’re the person who has learned from those failures. Build confidence and momentum with each good decision you make from here on out and choose to be inspired. — Joe Rogan
Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator. — Erykah Badu
Believe in your abilities and never let anyone else define your worth. — Steven Bartlett
Describe Me Quotes
Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life. — Chris Burke
I have been disappointed in all my expectations of Australia, except as to its wickedness; for it is far more wicked than I have conceived it possible for any place to be, or than it is possible for me to describe to you in England. — Henry Parkes
I am quite driven. I know what I think, and I know what I want to achieve, but I also hope that people who are asked to describe me would describe me as pretty down-to-earth, loyal, friendly. — Nicola Sturgeon
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar. — Gus Van Sant
If a movie is described as a romantic comedy, you can usually find me next door playing pinball. — George Carlin
I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me. — Jennifer Garner
The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations. — Jennifer Gilmore
You know, I'm the tough guy with taste, good friends, you know, describe me that I'm the tough guy, period, the way others do. But, you know, I'll tell you, I'm a complete wuss when it comes to my own kids. — Harvey Weinstein
Friends describe me as someone who likes to sing and dance along the edge of the roof. I try to encourage young women to be willing to take risks, to stand up for the things they believe in, and to step up and accept the challenge of serving in leadership roles. — Wilma Mankiller
You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something. — Paul Giamatti
What is Music? How do you define it? Music is a calm moonlit night, the rustle of leaves in Summer. Music is the far off peal of bells at dusk! Music comes straight from the heart and talks only to the heart: it is Love! Music is the Sister of Poetry and her Mother is sorrow! — Sergei Rachmaninoff
You are not defined by an Instagram photo, by a 'Like,' by a comment. That does not define you. — Selena Gomez
It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with. — Jim Abbott
Our religion has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don't accept the concept of motherhood. — Sayings
Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader. — Indra Nooyi
You are not defined by your possessions, looks, or popularity. You are made in God's image. — LeCrae
You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else. — Mario Batali
You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul. — Walt Disney
We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love. Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire. Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff. — Tim Minchin
Music means communication to me. I say 'listen you people out there, listen to my music, let's be one.' Music is a friend to me when I am lonely, when I am blue. You can't define music 'cause music is cosmos and it knows no barrier or definition. You have to feel music to dig it. — Robert Plant
If you can't define it, redefine it. — David O. Sacks
Ultimately, what defines the ‘cult of optimism’ and the culture of positive thinking – even in its most mystically tinged, New Age forms – is that it abhors a mystery. It seeks to make things certain, to make happiness permanent and final. And yet this kind of happiness – even if you do manage to achieve it – is shallow and unsatisfying. The greatest benefit of negative capability – the true power of negative thinking – is that it lets the mystery back in. — Oliver Burkeman
Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it. — Scott Weiland
Competitiveness is defined as the ability of companies to compete while maintaining or improving the average standard of living. If you are cutting wages to become more competitive, that's not really more competitive. It's raising the skill and the efficiency of those workers so that they can support and sustain that higher wage. — Michael Porter
Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection. — Hermann Weyl
I define "grindin'" as just nonstop work! Nonstop work, nonstop progress. Can't sleep during that grind - I mean, you get a little bit of it, but if you're progressin' at every hour, every second, you are grindin'. — Ace Hood
Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live. — Anne Sweeney
My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis. — Russell Wilson
Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you. — Chuck Close
Decisions are a way of defining ourselves. There comes a time in life when there is nothing else to do but go your own way. Where you are headed there are no trails, no paths, just your own instincts. — Sergio Bambaren
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