Top 25 Defining Moment Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Defining Moment Quotes from famous people such as Ram Nath Kovind, Daniel Day-Lewis, Michael Tilson Thomas, Dan Jenkins, Peter Navarro, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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Demonetisation was a defining moment in the government’s war on corruption and black money.
Ram Nath Kovind
There must’ve been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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
The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it’s usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it’s Sunday, but guys who don’t know the game, they can miss it.
Dan Jenkins
The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the World Trade Organization. It was the worst political and economic mistake in American history in the last 100 years.
Peter Navarro
I must say, I always – from experience, when I watch TV shows and I see characters leave without a proper explanation or leave with not enough time, I get irritated. I like it when there’s a clean-cut reason or a defining moment where they have to go. Whether that’s death or not, I think that’s subjective.
Alycia Debnam-Carey
Everything I do in my political life is colored by my military service. It was the defining moment in my life and helped me develop the leadership skills that I still utilize.
Jason Kander
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
All I want is the defining moment.
Brian Bosworth
Is Duran’s ‘No Mas’ a more defining moment in his career than his victory over Sugar Ray Leonard in their first fight? For many, it is.
Brin-Jonathan Butler
For me, the work we did to turn around ‘Toy Story 2’ was the defining moment in Pixar’s history.
Edwin Catmull
Watching boxer Dingko Singh’s performance at the Asian Games, Bangkok, where he won gold, was the defining moment. I was 15 and enjoyed sports more than anything else. Singh’s performance changed my life and inspired me to follow boxing.
Mary Kom
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
I remember the defining moment when I first realised I was famous. I was in Africa staying in the little tent city there by the Masai Mara River. Two guys with spears looked at me and said, ‘Frasier?’
Kelsey Grammer
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
A defining moment takes a long time to get over, if you ever do.
Mick Jones
For me, that was a defining moment in my career, being at Chelsea, going through what has made me become a man in terms of my career. Even playing on the right wing helped my right foot, making me use it more, making me improve.
Daniel Sturridge
The March on Washington was a defining moment in the history of this country and a great example of our nation truly living up to its creed.
Martin Luther King III
The hardest thing was launching ‘OK!’ magazine; the easiest thing was Channel 5. ‘The Express’ was my defining moment because our turnover was less than £100m with 150 employees.
Richard Desmond
My mother’s death was the defining moment of my life.
Marco Pierre White
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
In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.
Dan Jenkins
Sundance is going to be a defining moment in my life. But the unfortunate thing about Sundance is, when you have a film there, you can’t have the opportunity to see other films.
Gavin O’Connor
My defining moment was when I finally went to Cannes and saw my name along with international filmmakers.
Vikramaditya Motwane
‘Step Brothers’ itself, when I did it, I don’t know if I had any idea that it would become a defining moment in my career and life like it has, and I’m really happy that that’s the one that ended up being that for me.
Adam Scott