Top 1200 Define Quotes & Sayings

First, define your credo- the belief system of the organization. Secondly, define your real ambition, or where do you want to go as a collective community.

At the heart of anything good there should be a kernel of something undefinable, and if you can define it, or claim to be able to define it, then, in a sense, you’ve missed the point.

To be an aritst is not to wait for others to define us, but to define ourselves, claim our lives.

Before a big acting competition, my dad sent me a note that said, 'Define the moment. Don't let the moment define you.'

You can't define the future. And in my opinion, you can't define the avant-garde.

There's this homogenization, this big sucking motion in dominant society, to absorb all the disparate elements that define the margin or define the culture or define those who are thrust outside the status quo.

You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.

Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.

How do you turn the invisible into the visible? The first step is to define your dream precisely; the only limit to what you can achieve is the extent of your ability to define with precision that which you desire.

You don't get to Define me, only I can Define me, all I wish from you is to recognize my Definition.

Don't let others define you. Define yourself.

Sexuality shouldn't define anyone. It doesn't define me. Love should be at the core of what you do.

The public likes to think that women only care about contraception. Contraception doesn't define a woman.That's - doesn't define our views. We're so much smarter and broader than that.

I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to define myself by my values.

There are conversations going on about the Church constantly. Those conversations will continue whether or not we choose to participate in them. But we cannot stand on the sidelines while others, including our critics, attempt to define what our Church teaches... We are living in a world saturated with all kinds of voices. Perhaps now, more than ever, we have a major responsibility as Latter-day Saints to define ourselves, instead of letting others define us.

Successful candidates follow a simple fundamental rule: Define yourself before your opponent can define you.

You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat? I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.

Never would I allow my size to define me. Instead I would define it.

Nothing - and, I repeat, nothing - can affect what you build with sheer hard work. You either wait for people to define your worth or you define it with your own actions. I believe in the latter.

I think that's a place where we are, as a society, finally starting to get to now: where your sexuality doesn't have to define you - and you don't have to define it.

Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.

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 they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed.

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.

Maybe we don't have the same definition of about what's beautiful. So define it. Define true beauty.

To define the era we live in is very difficult. How do we define it? We define it by music.

Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.

Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.

Don't define the game by the list of the features. Define it by the experience you want to have.

I don't think you can define how you acquire your imagination any more than you can define why one person has a sense of humor and another doesn't. But I certainly would lean to the side that says all those solitary hours of daydreaming were a kind of training for poetry.

Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.

The transcendent experience is brotherly love, nature, harmony and unity. Cultures, in trying to define it, try to define an external deity as opposed to the process.

The key to having more time is doing less, and there are two paths to get there, both of which should be used together: (1) Define a short to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list.

I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.

Don't let a culture or society's rules define who you are; you define who you are.

Football isn't who we are, it doesn't necessarily define us. It's part of our life and it always will be, but football won't define us. Excellence does.

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

Don't let others define you. You define yourself.

I've made peace with the fact that the World Cup will not define me. Yes, it would be nice to add that to what's been a very enjoyable career, but I know it won't define me as a person or cricketer.

Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.

My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.

One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself. and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position.

Let us designate anarchism1 anarchism as you define it. Let us desiginate anarchism2 anarchism as I and the American Heritage College Dictionary define it.

Your age doesn't define your maturity; your grades don't define your ability; and what people say about you doesn't define who you are.

If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don't see any problem with a person being a Christian and believing in evolution. But that's not how textbooks define evolution. They define evolution as being random and undirected without plan or purpose.

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.

The essential building block is...the true love that is impossible to define for those who have never experienced it and unnecessary to define for those who have.

Democrats need to define themselves - not what they're against or who they're against, but we have got to define ourselves with what we're for.

Send out judgment and low energy and that is what you'll attract back. Remember, when you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself as someone who needs to judge. The same applies to judgments directed at you.

Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it.

I don't define myself by my successes. I define myself by adversity and how I've persevered.

Don’t allow circumstance to hold you back- even negative ones. You don’t have to let your circumstances define you. You can define yourself, and the best way to find yourself is through education.

Here you are, you're a liberal, probably define peace as the absence of conflict. I define peace as the ability to defend yourself and blow your enemies into smithereens.

Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.

I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.

I don't know that I could really define love. I can't . . . again, it's like trying to define what this creative force is. It's beyond my ability to really define. If I can define it, then it's not it. We're right back to that thing again.

To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get along without it. To define is to eliminate.

Take the time to define yourself and define your value. If you're having a hard time doing that, ask yourself: What is something I would say to someone I love?

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

Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line.