Defining Quotes

• Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

  Hannah Arendt

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “Men in Dark Times”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

  Albert Einstein

  World, Fifty, Problem

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• When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.

  Kevin Costner

  Inspirational, Tin, Defining Moments

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• It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Time

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.100, Bantam

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• 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

  Life, Freedom, Heart

  "Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833". A joint opinion coauthored with Justices Souter and O'Connor, caselaw.findlaw.com. 1992.

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• We won't let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers.

  Andrew McCutchen

  Motivational, Baseball, Determination

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• Look at your life. Look at the ways in which you define who you are and what you’re capable of achieving. Look at your goals. Look at the pressures applied by the people around you and the culture in which you were raised. Look again. And again. Keep looking until you realize, within your own experience, that you’re so much more than who you believe you are. Keep looking until you discover the wondrous heart, the marvelous mind, that is the very basis of your being.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Inspirational, Life, Buddhist

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• When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Leadership, Karma

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Nov 11, 2011

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• Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

  Jacques Ellul

  Technology, Order, Civilization

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• Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Crush, Morning

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• The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

  Max Eastman

  Art, Writing, Consciousness

  Max Eastman (1951). “Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology”

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  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

  Life, Beautiful, Being Yourself

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• God is not a Christian, God is not a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Buddhist. All of those are human systems which human beings have created to try to help us walk into the mystery of God. I honor my tradition, I walk through my tradition, but I don't think my tradition defines God, I think it only points me to God.

  John Shelby Spong

  God, Christian, Buddhist

  "Walking into the Mystery of God" by John Shelby Spong, www.uua.org.

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• While we tend to equate motherhood solely with maternity, in the Lord’s language, the word 'mother' has layers of meaning...Mothe rhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.

  Sheri L. Dew

  God, Mom, Mother Daughter

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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 places in our minds irresistibly. There are certain villages and towns, mountains and plains that, having seen them walked in them lived in them even for a day, we keep forever in the mind's eye. They become indispensable to our well-being; they define us, and we say, I am who I am because I have been there, or there.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Travel, Memories, Eye

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• It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.

  Jim Abbott

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Life, Positive, Meaningful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.

  Stephen King

  Wise, Dream, Children

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.449, Anchor

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• Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Use, Photographer

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• There are no happier people on this planet than those who decide that they want something, define what they want, get hold of the feeling of it even before its manifestation and then joyously watch the unfolding as, piece by piece by piece, it begins to unfold. That's the feeling of your hands in the clay.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• 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

  Leadership, People, Followers

  "Together with Business Studies XI". Book by Rachna Sagar (p. 225), 2016.

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• 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

  Life, Encouraging, Time

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• We declare, assert, define and pronounce to be subject to the Roman Pontiff is to every creature altogether necessary for salvation… I have the authority of the King of Kings. I am all in all, and above all, so that God Himself and I, the Vicar of Christ, have but one consistory, and I am able to do almost all that God can do. What therefore, can you make of me but God?

  Pope Boniface VIII

  God, Christian, Religious

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• No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Change, Being Yourself, Thinking

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