What defines you as a person is not the life you were born in to, but what you made of it.
What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several cultural traditions. It is precisely this that defines my identity. Would I exist more authentically if I cut off a part of myself
Judging a person does not define who they are. It defines who you are
A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
How YOU see yourself - not anyone else - is the thing that defines you.
How you spend your time defines who you are.
Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.
It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.
What then is to be the lot of Rossetti's fame and influence? 'An amateur who failed in two arts', it is true; yet it hardly harms Rossetti or touches his standing. On the contrary, it defines both very brilliantly. The small word 'failed' is a small word and little more to artists who are forever going on until they give up over a game that must be lost. Every artist, when confronted by the immensities of art, which is life, must confess to failure. A failure is a thing very relative.
My faith has always been important to me. It defines who I am.
When someone criticizes you, it defines who they are, not who you are.
What we do, our choices, that's what defines us
It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
Man exists, turns up, appears on the scene and only afterwards, defines himself
I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it.
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude. '
Become empty to become complete, for it is the void that defines the form.
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.
When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are grows.
I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.