Defining Moments Quotes

• For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

  Charley Pride

  Confidence, Self, Doubt

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Liars, Hero, Character

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• In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear.

  James Arthur Ray

  Two, Choices, Steps

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

  Kevin Costner

  Inspirational, Tin, Sports Movie

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• Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.

  Joss Whedon

  Inspirational, Strength, Vampire

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• We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over.

  John Bevere

  Book, Tests, Knows

  Twitter post from Oct 04, 2014

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• We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They're all refining moments. You're constantly refining yourself and refining your life.

  Sheryl Crow

  Life, Thinking, Growth

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• There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Deposits, About Yourself, Draws

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• Instead of setting goals, seek defining moments. Those are the real tests, because you have to be willing to fail in a pressure situation in front of other people.

  Hugh Jackman

  Real, People, Goal

  FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Aug 28, 2012

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• I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.

  Scott Hamilton

  Life, Hate, Past

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• Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.

  Dick Pound

  Opportunity, Arise, Occasions

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• In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important choices we will ever make, and it determines the course of our lives from that moment forward. The choice is this: Will we interpret this loss as so unjust, unfair, and devastating that we feel punished, angry, forever and fatally wounded-- or, as our heart, torn apart, bleeds its anguish of sheer, wordless grief, will we somehow feel this loss as an opportunity to become more tender, more open, more passionately alive, more grateful for what remains?

  Wayne Muller

  Death, Powerful, Grief

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• But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter what sort of a state we're in.

  Darren Shan

  Matter, Faces, States

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• I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment.

  Arsenio Hall

  Jobs, Parent, Would Be

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• Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life's long-range future will be secure irrespective of any of the risks on Earth. Will this happen before our technological civilization disintegrates, leaving this as a might-have-been? Will the self-sustaining space communities be established before a catastrophe sets back the prospect of any such enterprise, perhaps foreclosing it forever? We live at what could be a defining moment for the cosmos.

  Martin Rees

  Moon, Civilization, Space

  "Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning". Book by Martin Rees, 2003.

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• The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody - like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger - and I thought, 'That can be me.' So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn't realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Men, Funny Things, Work Out

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• I think the defining moment in my career is the day that I moved to Nashville - September 1, 2001. That's the biggest step to getting here is making that move. Anything that happens, the wonderful opportunities that happen to you, can't happen until you make that move.

  Luke Bryan

  Moving, Thinking, Opportunity

  "Luke Bryan Reveals His Memorable Spring Breaks, Best Buds and a Celebrity Apprentice Freakout". Interview with Michael Bialas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2012.

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• I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

  Adam Savage

  Thinking, Suffering, Realization

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• Press on. Your defining moment may arrive just when you feel surrounded by adversity.

  David Cottrell

  Adversity, May, Feels

  David Cottrell (2013). “Tuesday Morning Coaching and The Magic Question (EBOOK BUNDLE)”, p.24, McGraw Hill Professional

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• There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Mark, Wanted, Defining

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• I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Song, Kids, Simple

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• All I want is the defining moment.

  Brian Bosworth

  Want, Defining, Moments

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• I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

  Abdallah II

  Country, Thinking, Sweat

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• I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.

  Tyson Gay

  Athlete, Done, Want

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• ...the truer measure of sacrifice isn't so much what one gives to sacrifice as what one sacrifices to give. Faith isn't tested so much when the cupboard is full as when it is bare. In these defining moments, the crisis doesn't create one's characterit reveals it.

  Lynn G. Robbins

  Sacrifice, Giving, Cupboards

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