Define Us Quotes
55 quotes by 53 authors
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The preservation of our national security and the laws that define us as the United States of America demand that we understand the intersection of…
— John O. Brennan
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The more I look around and listen I realize that I'm not alone. We are all facing choices that define us. No choice. However messy…
— Sabrina Ward Harrison
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The lesson, I suppose, is that none of us have much control over how we will be remembered. Every life is an amalgam, and it…
— Alice McDermott
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Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a simple matter of…
— Zadie Smith
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There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such…
— N. Scott Momaday
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It's not our mistakes that define us. It's the lessons we learn that show our true character.
— Cassia Leo
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We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who…
— Adyashanti
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Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.
— R. J. Palacio
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Four years ago, I was thinking… no Olympics, who am I? Probably in ’04, I was identified with gymnastics. I thought gymnastics was who I…
— Raj Bhavsar
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Laughter is the evidence that we're still here, the proof that our tragedies will not define us forever. Laughter is the language of the survivor.
— Josh James
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We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what…
— Selma James
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Sometimes the moments that challenge us the most, define us.
— Deena Kastor
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Kinder the enemy who must malign us Than the smug friend who will define us
— Anna Wickham
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No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a…
— Elisabeth Sladen
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The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.
— Simon Van Booy
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It's not the failures in our life that define us, it's the moments when we decide that getting back up is all that matters
— Joel Brown
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It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered down by mistake.…
— Anna Quindlen
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Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.
— Hal Duncan
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Memories no matter how small or inconsequential are the pages that define us.
— Sarah Winman
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The first step on the journey of faith is to recognize that everything is moving onward to something else, inside us and outside... We see…
— Sharon Salzberg
Who Wrote These Define Us Quotes
53 authors contributed a total of 55 Define Us Quotes, led by these top contributors: