A Quote by Jane Austen

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
British - Novelist
December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817

What you do, what you say, how you react to critical situations defines not just the moment, but it defines and shapes you.

Christiane Amanpour

The character of our language defines us, and dictionaries say as much about us as about the way we speak.

Susie Dent

It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do.

Oprah Winfrey

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

Elizabeth Smart

What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.

John Piper

Nobody told David Clarke what to think, what to feel, what to say, what to believe in, who to marry, what kind of food to eat - you know that thing that the race hustlers like to say defines your blackness? But yet every time I look in the mirror in the morning, I see a black guy looking back at me.

David A. Clarke, Jr.

But you were a goody-goody, you said.' 'Even goody-goodies think about such things. In fact, I would say that's what defines us. We're always thinking about the things we don't dare do, figuring out where the lines are drawn, so we can go right up to the edge of things, then plead innocence on the ground of a technicality.

Laura Lippman

This is America - you're allowed to say and do what you want and what you say and do defines who you are as a person.

Lee DeWyze

I preach that anybody can improve their lives. I think God wants us to be prosperous. I think he wants us to be happy. To me, you need to have money to pay your bills. I think God wants us to send our kids to college. I think he wants us to be a blessing to other people. But I don't think I'd say God wants us to be rich. It's all relative, isn't it?

Joel Osteen

Today the thing I find myself thinking about the most is our landscape...I think it's something a lot of us take for granted; for many of us Australia is just there but how many of us have really seen it, have seen Kakadu or Kings Canyon? I know I hope to at some stage, to see Uluru at sunset and the ancient art in the Abrakurrie caves. I think it's our landscape which defines our identity and it's what I'm most grateful for.

Mick Dodson

In short, liturgies make us certain kinds of people, and what defines us is what we love.

James K. A. Smith

Equality, absolutely, that's what defines us. It's what makes us great. If it doesn't sit well with your religion, let your God sort it out in the end, but that's us. We're equal