Top 100 Circumstance Quotes
#1. Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?
Peter Jennings
#2. I want to remember to notice the wonders of each day, in each moment, no matter where I am under any circumstance.
Charlotte Eriksson
#4. And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna's hands, desirable by Peeta's confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.
Suzanne Collins
#5. I have to say that it was a thrilling ride to be on 'Terriers.' It was this odd circumstance where it was really loved by the people it was loved by, but it didn't do well. In fairness to FX, they were just so generous in keeping it on the air the whole year.
Donal Logue
#6. A humble person is not one who thinks little of himself, hangs his head and says, "I'm nothing." Rather, he is one who depends wholly on the Lord for everything, in every circumstance.
David Wilkerson
#8. I'd never assume an audience was anything but totally receptive and perfect. Seriously, it seems to me that's the only circumstance you can work under. Otherwise, speaking for myself, you may as well be in the advertising business.
Tom Verlaine
#9. We can't control on how each day will fall, but we can control how we fall into each day. Learn to make adjustments to match the circumstances.
Anthony Liccione
#10. Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.
Dorothy West
#11. From good examples we learn how to be. From bad examples we learn how not to be. An observant and willing student can learn from any circumstance.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#12. But I was not good enough. You should understand this about me - I am not a hero; not one to tap unknown reserves of courage; not one to rise to circumstance. I am the understudy who chokes on his lines when he is forced onto the stage. I am never, ever good enough.
Dexter Palmer
#13. When people ask that question, it's very hard to nail down a formula or a circumstance that I always write in, but I definitely do believe that there have been moments, musically, when I have channeled something, you know?
Kimbra
#14. No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.
Marcus Garvey
#15. The follower of Tao is always flexible and adaptable to circumstance.
Ming-Dao Deng
#16. You need to return to the truth of God's Word that will last forever, not meditate on circumstance that will fade and change.
It is this truth that enables us to go into the future undaunted.
Christine Caine
#17. Success is more a matter of choice than of circumstance.
Rory Vaden
#18. You appear in the Novelletten in every possible circumstance, in every irresistible form ... They could only be written by one who knows such eyes as yours and has touched such lips as yours.
Clara Schumann
#19. Discernment is the ability to judge a situation accurately - to see the full reality of a situation, relationship, experience, or circumstance. It is the capacity to understand accurately and clearly what is, to see the truth of things as they are from God's viewpoint.
Charles F. Stanley
#20. Spirituality is the ability to say - It is OK, in every circumstance.
Rajesh Nanoo
#21. My constant endeavor is to know, believe, practise and prove that ' I ' am and will always be SUPERIOR to circumstance.
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#23. Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes but at the end of your days, you will be remembered for your gallop, not for your stumble.
Bradley Whitford
#24. Man ought never to trust another man's evaluation of a third man's disposition. For human temperament was a volatile compound of perception and circumstance;
Eleanor Catton
#25. Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
#26. Don't be blown around by the winds of time, avoid being a creature of circumstance.
Steven Redhead
#27. The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.
E. O. Wilson
#28. The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought,
James Allen
#29. If I had ever, in any medium, seen any researcher or popularizer refer even once to any supposedly ay-producing circumstance as the proper hormone balance, or the conducive endocrine environment, for gay generation, I would be less chilled by the breezes of all this technological confidence.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
#30. A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they're held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom.
Roz Savage
#31. George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted above ability because of circumstance and organisation and empathy. You don't have to be intelligent. A moron in a hurry could know that you don't prevent war by having a war.
David Lange
#32. The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.
Peter Conrad
#33. I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving and caring people who, by circumstance, had to go to work.
Harold Ramis
#34. If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.
Chin-Ning Chu
#35. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or do in a circumstance unexpected by other people: it is reflection, meditation.
Andrew Roberts
#36. Release and detach from every person, every circumstance, every condition, and every situation that no longer serves a divine purpose in your life. All things have a season, and all seasons must come to an end. Choose a new season, filled with purposeful thoughts and activities.
Iyanla Vanzant
#37. I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
Irvine Welsh
#38. Genuine surrender says, "Father, if this problem, pain, sickness, or circumstance is needed to fulfill your purpose and glory in my life or in another's, please don't take it away." This level of maturity does not come easy.
Rick Warren
#40. No object, no event, no outcome or life circumstance can deliver real happiness to us. We have to make our own happiness - by working hard at activities that provide their own reward.15
Jane McGonigal
#41. I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.
Martha Beck
#42. You can be sunk low or as a skunk and still have a joy in your heart. Joy lives like one of those spinning things
a gyroscope in your heart. It doesn't seem to have any connection to circumstance, good or bad.
Polly Horvath
#43. We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.
Hannah More
#44. You don't know what it means to live the life that you could have lived, if an event over which you have no control, an unforeseeable circumstance, had not distracted and diverted you, and at times crushed you, as has happened to me.
Luigi Pirandello
#45. All the horrors of war are soon forgotten in the pomp and circumstance of show and parade.
James Henry Gooding
#46. It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
Thomas More
#47. You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own sort of vision. That helps things. I don't know what it is. Probably just circumstance. I've definitely been aware of the fact that I want to do different things.
John Cusack
#48. No matter what a situation or circumstance looks like; know that nothing is ever what it seems. Never loose hope.
Barbara Hart
#49. Because the truth is, we never know for sure about ourselves. Who we'll sleep with if given the opportunity, who we'll betray in the right circumstance, whose faith and love we will reward with our own ... Only after we've done a thing do we know what we'll do ...
Richard Russo
#50. We were all born to the same world but with much greater circumstance
but with these two hands and what I have been given
I will build so much more
from Dexterity
K.R. Albers
#51. In these dreams, I'm there, implicated in some ongoing circumstance. All indications are that I belong to this dream continuity.
Haruki Murakami
#52. There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.
Ian McDonald
#53. Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by accidents of time, or place, or circumstance, are brought into closer connection with you.
Augustine Of Hippo
#54. The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.
John Updike
#55. In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never know what you're going do unless you're faced with it.
Viola Davis
#56. And the faith that grows out of questioning is stronger than the faith born of blind acceptance. It can withstand the shocks of circumstance. Only he who questions the universe and questions it in utter honesty can grow in his comprehension of the truth.
James Dillet Freeman
#57. When you form the habit of searching for the positive in every circumstance, your life will move into its highest dimensions.
Robin S. Sharma
#58. I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
Martha Washington
#59. I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.
Val Kilmer
#60. I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!
Nick Vujicic
#61. Take action. Every story you've ever connected with, every leader you've ever admired, every puny little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.
Bradley Whitford
#62. "One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change.
Alfred North Whitehead
#63. I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance,
Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance
You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.
Saul Williams
#64. The world's evaluations of an individual's social worth, like the slits in my eyeballs, change with time and circumstance. In point of fact my pupil-slits vary but modestly between broad and narrow, but mankind's judgements turn somersaults and cartwheels for no conceivable reason.
Soseki Natsume
#65. When we are being compassionate, we consider another's circumstance with love rather than judgement ... To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.
Jill Bolte Taylor
#66. Under any circumstance, always do your best, no more and no less. But keep in mind that your best is never going to be the same from one moment to the next.
Miguel Ruiz
#67. Most people go through life by the line of least resistance in every circumstance where they can make a choice. They do not recognize that following the lines of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked!
Napoleon Hill
#68. Your Father in heaven knows your name and knows your circumstance. He hears your prayers. He knows your hopes and dreams, including your fears and frustrations. And He knows what you can become through faith in Him.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#69. Don't let the acids of bitterness eat away inside. Learn the secret of trusting Christ in every circumstance.
Billy Graham
#70. Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.
Neal A. Maxwell
#71. It is not what happens to you in life that makes the difference. It is how you react to each circumstance you encounter that determines the result. Every human being in the same situation has the possibilities of choosing how he will react - either positively or negatively.
Earl Nightingale
#72. When you choose to act on your problems, you cease to be a victim of circumstance and become a force of change; that's when you transition to not only being a survivor, but to being a leader or hero too, and an inspiration to those still in the victim's mindset.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#73. Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#74. Canadian-American relations for many years did not develop spontaneously. The example of accord provided by our two countries did not come about merely through the happy circumstance of geography. It is compounded of one part proximity and nine parts good will and common sense.
Harry S. Truman
#75. So here's the flash: Continuing to live life as a victim of circumstance, forever focusing on what's wrong with everything and everybody, will never, ever, bring the life desired. It will only bring one thing: more of whatever it is we're wanting so desperately to change.
Lynn Grabhorn
#76. No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.
Mary Somerville
#77. You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought.
Michael Beckwith
#78. I agree with God's Word; I disagree with any condition, situation or circumstance contrary to that Word.
T. B. Joshua
#79. The circumstance is the incredible part, but I always knew in my heart that something was going to be out there, just for the world to notice me. It sounds so cocky, but it's happening.
Kato Kaelin
#80. What China would do, I cannot predict. China has all but given up the claim to the use of force, except in the circumstance of Taiwan declaring its independence. That is a huge step forward over what the situation was many years ago.
Henry A. Kissinger
#81. Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live.
Michel De Montaigne
#82. The evil we do, Monsieur, is within us; it does not come from circumstance.
Emmuska Orczy
#83. Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#84. What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.
Theodore Roethke
#85. The "determinist" swears that if we knew everything we should also be able to deduce and foretell the conduct of every man in every circumstance, and that is obvious enough. But the expression "know everything" means nothing.
Paul Valery
#86. They're girls," she replied briefly. "They were born in danger and will live their lives in that condition, regardless of circumstance.
Diana Gabaldon
#87. Comfortable (favorable) circumstance 'polishes' one and uncomfortable (unfavorable) circumstances 'moulds' one. What problem do we have with either of the two?
Dada Bhagwan
#88. A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.
Mark Twain
#89. Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.
Charlotte Bronte
#90. The unconscious fabric of human destiny had done with her, unraveling all her grievances and reweaving them as joyous circumstance.
Michelle Franklin
#91. Complaining is a sign that someone isn't willing to risk moving on a changeable situation, or won't consider the immutable circumstance in his or her plans.
David Allen
#92. We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.
Benjamin Disraeli
#94. It's great that Time is moving in the direction of validating those who, by choice or circumstance, will never be parents. But the point is not simply that society should stop judging those of us who don't have children. It's that society actually needs us. Children need us.
Meghan Daum
#95. How futile and even arrogant for us to seek to determine what God is doing in a particular event or circumstance.
Jerry Bridges
#96. You arrive at Formula One being very skeptical, how far can your talent deal with all this, and then you understand those guys are human and pretty reasonable, and finally succeeding in winning your first race, in circumstance as such, it was just an amazing moment.
Michael Schumacher
#97. To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.
Oliver Goldsmith
#98. If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.
Herbert Butterfield
#99. I am I and my circumstance; and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#100. That just proves I have mad skills. I can shrug under any circumstance. I'm a motherfoing shrugging master, yo. "It
Jake Bible
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