Circumstances And Choices Quotes

#1. For each of us destiny is a blend of potential, circumstances, and choices.

Brandon Mull

#2. Of course, no matter how hard we try to be objective as reporters, our life experiences and personal circumstances influence our journalism, including the choice of topics we pursue.

Sheri Fink

#3. Happiness is always a choice. You can't wait for circumstances to get better. You have to create your own good fortune. So look for ways to be happy every day.

Joel Osteen

#4. Happiness does not depend on your circumstances; it depends on your will. It's a choice that you make.

Joel Osteen

#5. I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.

Christina Baker Kline

#6. People will tell you that the world is divided into good and bad, and that I'm bad, but it's not, and I'm not. The real truth is that I make choices based on my circumstances. We all do. It trumps everything else, whether you know it or not. There has never been a good or bad.

Zia Marie

#7. We all have them, those parts of us that are the greatest parts of us and the worst parts of us. Sometimes we're put in circumstances and bad choices are made.

Elizabeth Rodriguez

#8. To have even one year when you're presented with choices that can alter your circumstances, your character, your course- that's by the grace of God alone. And it shouldn't come without a price.

Amor Towles

#9. Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

Tom G. Palmer

#10. Now, please understand that I didn't want to do any of this crap. None of these choices were mine. Like kids across the nation I was caught in circumstances beyond my control, and I felt that my choices were bad, worse, and worst.

Mark Garrison

#11. Without making the fundamental choice to be the predominant creative force in your life, no matter what you do to attempt to benefit yourself or enhance your life, you will merely be finding more sophisticated ways of responding to circumstances.

Robert Fritz

#12. Living from the Creator Orientation is actually more challenging. In the Victim Orientation, I didn't have to exercise conscious choice; I just reacted to my circumstances.

David Emerald Womeldorff

#13. Everyone has a choice. (Kiara)
No, princess, they don't. Choices aren't always up to us. Life and circumstances can shred even the stoutest soul. No matter how pure and untainted you think you are, I promise you that you, too, can be shoved into the darkness, just like we were. (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. We mustn't allow our circumstances and disappointments to become the excuse for the choices we make in life. God is greater than all of that, and He can bring beauty out of ashes. Our trials come, Augustine said, to prove us and to improve us.

Alistair Begg

#15. The idea that the president has the power to craft a new strategy both overstates his power and understates the power of reality crafted by those who came before him. We are all trapped in circumstances into which we were born and choices that were made for us.

George Friedman

#16. Circumstances don't determine who you are, or what you will be. Only you do that. You either decide, or you don't. Even the decision not to decide was still yours.

Julie-Anne

#17. Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change.

Susan Polgar

#18. Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make?

Vine Deloria Jr.

#19. Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.

Mike Leigh

#20. The good news is that every morning we have the choice; not to be controlled by circumstances nor our past but by purposely designing our day, hence our lives better. Not to react to life but to respond with love.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#21. We are all capable of regulating how we think and feel. It just boils down to owning that power.

Carlos Wallace

#22. Jessie's fate was a complex tapestry of many choices and many circumstances, and Kera knew she had been only one small thread in the weave.

L.J. Sellers

#23. At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.

L. Lionel Kendrick

#24. When you hit your lowest point, you have two choices: stay down and let the circumstances drown you, or find your footing and kick until you eventually break the surface. I decide to kick.

Amy Matayo

#25. Circumstances shape who we are and who we become. I believe that. But I also believe we have choices. There are always choices.

Lisa Schroeder

#26. Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose to be with; and, the laws you choose to obey

Charles R. Millhuff

#27. Success is more a matter of choice than of circumstance.

Rory Vaden

#28. You can't let your current circumstances dictate what kind of choices you make.

Kelly Clark

#29. Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.

Stephen Covey

#30. There is no easy way out of our circumstances...Sometimes you stick it out even when you want to give up because you know that on the other side is either a better situation or a better you." -Watercrossing (Phantom Island Book 3)

Krissi Dallas

#31. We've all changed; shaped by circumstances we've been thrust into, molded by the choices we've made.

Siobhan Davis

#32. Choices in life are not and should not be determined by our life circumstances.

Karni Liddell

#33. Happiness is actually an individual choice, even in the midst of negative circumstances. It's not something our employers can give to us, though they can limit and influence that choice.

Shawn Achor

#34. When we do what's right, regardless of circumstances or consequences, we set the table for God to turn the tables. All we need to do is stand up, step in, or step out.

Mark Batterson

#35. We are people in circumstances who make choices that we think are right at the time.

Joel Edgerton

#36. When your sense of self and happiness comes from within and isn't a roller coaster ride dependent on others or circumstances, you approach life differently. You make better choices. You draw to you the people and situations that matter. The others, they fall away.

Kamal Ravikant

#37. When we need to find something to blame for a tragedy, mothering becomes the de facto central influence in a child or adult's life. This process almost never goes as far as weighing the social circumstances that constrain a mother's choices.

Anonymous

#38. All of us have the privilege and responsibility of choosing our attitudes, no matter what circumstances or situations we find ourselves in. The key word here is choosing. Attitudes don't just happen; they are the products of our choices.

Joyce Meyer

#39. Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#40. But circumstances change. Small causes lead to large effects. New paths are added.
And all anyone can do ... is choose.

Kelseyleigh Reber

#41. Today's choices become tomorrow's circumstances. Proverbs 27:12 says, The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.

Lysa TerKeurst

#42. We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.

Stephen Covey

#43. Sometimes our wants or needs have nothing to do with being ungrateful and everything to do with making a mistake.

Shannon L. Alder

#44. We are a product of the choices we make, not the circumstances that we face.

Roger Crawford

#45. Keep in mind, Eragon, that no one thinks himself a villain, and few make decisions they think are wrong. A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it because, even in the worst circumstances, he believes that it was the best option available to him at the time.

Christopher Paolini

#46. We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.

James C. Collins

#47. If you are serious about becoming like Christ, He is going to put you in circumstances where your only true choice is to become like Him.

Francis Frangipane

#48. Retaining your power is about being confident in who you are and the choices you make, despite the people around you and the circumstances you're in.

Amy Morin

#49. Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.

John Lanchester