Defining Quotes

When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work with others.

It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.

People have defining moments, i suppose, especially when they're children.

And we have got to go back - I will tell you what we have got to do. We have got to go back to the small disciplines that really make a difference in defining ourselves as a profession. And we will.

By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.

I'm defining [presidential courage] pretty narrowly. It's not only taking a big political risk but it's also the risk that in the hindsight of history, people think it's wise.

You can't get back to power by defining your project in negative terms. But it helps to have somebody in office who represents the opposite of what you believe.

There is an inherent dissonancebetween the quasi-formal world of computer programs - defining the programmed machine in each system - and the non-formal problem world of the system requirements.

If Microsoft is the new IBM, Google is the new Microsoft - the defining company of the industry.

You are doing something very sacred here, something very daring, during your life upon the earth. You are defining yourself, and then creating yourself anew, in each golden moment of now.

That defining moment at my friend's house, when his uncle looks in my eye and reads me the word of God, I have an awakening.

Comparing objects like cars, houses, clothes, and defining life according to those comparisons, instead of trying to discover the real reason for being alive.

Grads need to remember that it's [showcases] just a jumping off point for their career, not the defining moment.

Beating John Landy was my defining race.

The Constitution is very clear: Congress has sole discretion over defining who is and who isn't a citizen and how you become one. It's not the 14th Amendment.

The conservative movement today is so fractured that I think you'd have a tough time actually defining it and pointing to it.

Diversity hasn't a thing to do with why this country is great. Diversity is not a factor in any way when defining or explaining America's greatness.

No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us

There has been one defining production for me in each decade.

It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.

Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret. We are defined by the objects of our regret.

The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [...] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.

For me, I think that the struggle around how to deal with Islam in the United States is the defining moral struggle of this half of the new century.

Whenever you have a thought that excludes or judges anyone else, you aren't defining them. You're defining yourself as someone who needs to judge others.

I don't think the emotional quality is the defining quality of the music but it's definitely something that people have picked up on a lot

We usually don't realize the thing that is defining our identity until that thing is taken away.

Single is no longer a lack of options – but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your life be defined by your relationship status but to live every day Happily and let your Ever After work itself out.

Your most important “want” should be the one you can control!

Doing something later is not automatically the same as doing something better

The only thing that comes close to defining me correctly is my love.

LEGACY plays an important role in defining a good leader at any age.

How we choose to deal with pain is ultimately the measure of who we are and of the success we have in closing our gaps.

What separates people who made their dreams come true is not setting goals to achieve a life the way they expect it to be, but how they expect to be, in order to achieve it.

Again he thought of his own losses, and he wondered why it was that the things a person had lost— or might lose— defined him more than the things he yet possessed.

Failing may not necessarily mean you're losing out - it may be your defining moment. So, dare to fail forward!

You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it.

Some people love to mentally bully others into feeling inferior. Sadly, they often succeed in doing so because a lot of people aren't in the habit of defining their true self-worth.

If you want to know what a person is truly made of, don't rush to define them until you meet them and see the principles they live by.

When you define yourself with your material possessions, you would likely attract those who would do anything humanly possible to come into your life to take advantage of you.

Character primarily is honesty with God, ones-self, and others."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Character is what we do when no one else is watching"~R. Alan Woods [2012]

...everything defiled and degraded. What cannot man live through! Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

There are no defining moments. There are only your moments to define.

'Be Cool' was a defining movie for me.