Top 100 Quotes About Circumstances
#1. We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
Earl Nightingale
#2. And I think more of a concern has been not within the campaign, the mistakes that were made, not being able to react to the circumstances that those mistakes created in a real positive and professional and helpful way for John McCain.
Sarah Palin
#3. that if a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them. The
Amor Towles
#4. The object of life is to make sure you die a weird death. To make sure that, however it finds you, it finds you under very weird circumstances.
Thomas Pynchon
#5. Not to wish too hard for a shift in circumstances since it never happens as you imagine.
Ann Aguirre
#6. Although we can't control which roles are assigned to us, it must be our business to act our given role as best we possibly can and to refrain from complaining about it. Where ever you find yourself and in whatever circumstances, give an impeccable performance.
Epictetus
#7. With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time to time.
Rene Dubos
#8. I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus' love, not Jesus' love by my circumstances.
Timothy Keller
#9. No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances.
Aleksandr Voinov
#10. The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man ... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#11. Change helps you to adapt to circumstances in life.
Sunday Adelaja
#12. Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.
Gunter Grass
#14. Everything that we do affects our fate for better or for worse. The circumstances into which we are born also exert a tremendous influence; we come into the world with debits and credits for which we are not responsible already posted to our account: this teaches us humility.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#15. Thus the key to happiness lies not in changing our genetic makeup (which is impossible) and not in changing our circumstances (i.e., seeking wealth or attractiveness or better colleagues, which is usually impractical), but in our daily intentional activities.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#16. Considering the circumstances, it was a rather good kiss. In reality, it would have been perfect if they both had not been coughing from the smoke.
Isabel Allende
#17. I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.
John Bolton
#18. The apostles were scattered, and even the leaders of the Church in Jerusalem had neither the power nor the means to impose uniformity.In these circumstances, we must imagine the literature of Christianity as spreading gradually, irregularly, and in a manner which variations inevitable.
Frederic G. Kenyon
#19. My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.
Raymond Carver
#20. and both men listened as if hearing it for the first time, as we so frequently listen, in such circumstances, to tales whose outcomes we already know, or have already been told us by our friends.
Joyce Carol Oates
#21. Raising children has given me a compassionate and gracious heart for all children and people, realizing we don't always know the circumstances behind closed doors.
Candace Cameron
#22. A lot of players are slow to change, you're playing good,( you think) why do I want to mess with that ? It takes a lot of testing, a lot of practice and observation of the ball, especially under competitive circumstances, to realize this is a better product and I need to start using it.
David Duval
#23. It was Mr. Gotobed, who had just returned from a visit which he had made, the circumstances of which must be narrated in the next chapter. The
Anthony Trollope
#24. Sadly, retirement planning, in many circumstances, has become nothing more than planned procrastination.
Richie Norton
#25. a light will continue to be a light notwithstanding what might be blocking it from shining. It is! the sun does not stop shining just because we cannot feel it's hotness. We must keep shining without ceasing regardless of life circumstances
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#26. If I can do concert recitals, adapting the repertoire to my needs, then no problem, that's good enough. But with operas, unless the right circumstances come up, my career is done.
Jose Carreras
#27. A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In truth, by the act of migration the country was made: by that voluntary act and by the emigrants' ambitions it was built.
Paul Keating
#28. Little girls do not wake up in the morning and say "I dream of being a prostitute." It is a terrible, terrible life. Body invasion is more traumatic than even getting beaten up. In certain circumstances, obviously, it may be a way to survive.
Gloria Steinem
#29. We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, there's still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.
Ishmael Beah
#30. To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.
Dana Hussein
#31. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
Toni Morrison
#32. Never ask anyone to do anything for you that you wouldn't do for him or her if the circumstances were reversed. There is a
Napoleon Hill
#33. Don't think of it as a lie, think of it as the truth under imaginary circumstances.
Paul Hoffman
#34. Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us
Ken Robinson
#35. Now, I am not saying that there is one single type of individual who is a better type of terrorist than another. What I am saying is that the circumstances that push certain individuals over the edge, to become terrorists, are generally very, very similar.
Loretta Napoleoni
#36. They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances.
Charles Dickens
#37. I know you better than you think, Leonidis, and under no circumstances are you allowed to try to fix this. I think you may be right. I think it may be time to tell them the truth, but in my own time, okay?" God licked Day's parted lips. "Okay," Day whispered. "Also" -
A.E. Via
#38. I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?
Amy Tan
#39. Become aware of what you are thinking and you will recognize a law between your mood and your surrounding circumstances.
Neville Goddard
#40. By choosing to hang on to one's corner of freedom even in the worst situations, we can process our world with the energy of appreciation and beauty, and create an opportunity to transcend our circumstances.
Wayne W. Dyer
#41. A child gets sick with a chronic disease of unhappiness not from unhappy circumstances but from unhappy people around him. Unhappy people cannot raise happy children; it's impossible.
Simon Soloveychik
#42. He wondered whether he had done right. He was dissatisfied with himself and with all his circumstances. He asked himself dully whether whenever you got your way you wished afterwards that you hadn't
W. Somerset Maugham
#43. Trust God for your current life circumstances and believe that He has called you this day to be courageous.
Beth Moore
#44. A great book seeks to explain causality, not correlation. It works to point out the circumstances in which it works, and where it doesn't. And in so doing, it is broadly applicable.
Clayton Christensen
#45. Everyday I attempt to consume 4,000 Calories and 200 grams of protein. I don't always reach that mark but when I go to bed at night I know that I did the best I could given my schedule and the circumstances that day.
Robert Cheeke
#46. The word "missing" is particularly cruel, leaving as it does a ray of hope that the person will turn up safe and well, even in the most doomed circumstances. As days go by, it becomes increasingly unlikely and yet and yet ...
Deborah Cavendish, Duchess Of Devonshire
#47. Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#48. The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.
Leo Babauta
#49. For all of us there is an approach to the seemingly unapproachable. This is the life-affirming work of learning to stay present even under difficult circumstances, to embrace mental, physical, and spiritual pain using techniques suitable for each particular level of discomfort.
Stephen Levine
#50. Don't try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.
Alexander Rodchenko
#51. There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority.
T.D. Jakes
#52. The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
Madeleine K. Albright
#53. The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do.
Marcus Aurelius
#54. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth
Charles Stanley
#55. I believe that the American poet ought to be a tough son of a bitch. He sought to hold his own in this culture on his own terms and not compromise under any circumstances.
James Dickey
#56. A good marriage is loving someone in a lot of different circumstances. Respect for them and their views and ideas and the life that they're leading with you. Shared values and interests. A good sense of humour. And a little volatility along the way.
Edward Kennedy
#57. We cannot control all the circumstances of our lives, but we can control our attitudes and our actions. If we don't, someone else will.
Toni Sorenson
#58. It's hard to be a good doctor if you don't think about the social circumstances of who you're treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it's difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right-winger.
Robert Winston
#59. Fleet Foxes will never, ever, under no circumstances, from now until the world chokes on gas fumes, sign to a major label. This includes all subsidiaries or permutations thereunder. Till we die.
Robin Pecknold
#60. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
Viktor E. Frankl
#61. In particular, I'd realized that although I possessed all the elements of a happy life, too often I took my circumstances for granted and allowed myself to become overly vexed by petty annoyances or fleeting worries. I'd wanted to appreciate my life more, and to live up to it better.
Gretchen Rubin
#62. Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well.
Jurgen Moltmann
#63. The role of business in advancing women's rights is growing, particularly in the area of economic opportunity including opening access to training, mentoring, networks, markets, technology and even to capital in some circumstances.
Melanne Verveer
#64. Unbelief puts our circumstances between us and God; faith puts God between us and our circumstances.
Tracie Miles
#65. All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.
Tom Hiddleston
#66. It is beyond the power of any man to make a revolution. Neither can it be brought about on any appointed date. It is brought about by special environments, social and economic. The function of an organised party is to utilise any such opportunity offered by these circumstances.
Bhagat Singh
#67. The battle is not against sin or difficulties or circumstances, but against being so absorbed in work that we are not ready to face Jesus Christ at every turn.
Oswald Chambers
#68. I have seen giraffes in junglejims
their necks like love
wound around the iron circumstances
of the world.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#69. Those who have gone through a divorce know the pain and special challenges of raising a child under such circumstances.
Mike McGavick
#70. Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.
Joy Page
#71. Why aren't you happy? they tend to focus on their current circumstances. Happy people look to Someone so big that by his grace, even great difficulties provide opportunities for a deeper kind of happiness.
Randy Alcorn
#72. The exhausting manipulation and control it takes to protect an identity based on circumstances will crush our hearts and hide the best of who we are behind a wall of insecurity.
Lysa TerKeurst
#73. It is part of His plan to send suffering to bring out a higher good; but surely it's also part of His plan that as much of the burden of suffering as can be should be lightened by those whom it is His pleasure to make happy and content in their own circumstances.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#74. The far and the near must be relative, and depend on many varying circumstances.
Jane Austen
#75. I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred circumstances and my profession as an artist. It is a life that contains nothing that resembles happiness, and moreover does not even desire happiness.
Edvard Munch
#76. O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness
William Ellery Channing
#77. Human beings are inherently endowed with the power to bring out the best possible results from the worst possible circumstances.
Daisaku Ikeda
#78. Don't let circumstances determine your fate. Choose your fate and mold circumstances to fit your fate of choice.
D.B. Harrop
#79. While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die.
Peter McWilliams
#81. I certainly never felt rejected because they had given me up. My parents knew nothing about my birth mother, yet always explained with certainty that she didn't "give me up" or "give me away" - she made a plan for me, the best one she could make under her circumstances, whatever those were.
Emily Giffin
#82. You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
#83. One thing that seems to surprise the studios is finding out later my willingness to audition. Under the right circumstances, I actually enjoy it very much.
Frank Welker
#84. Arrakis is ours because we have taken it," Selim announced. "We have learned to survive under the harshest circumstances, without depending upon the benevolence of strangers or trade with offworld intruders.
Brian Herbert
#85. We are not the victims of our circumstances; we are the creators of them!
Doreen Banaszak
#86. I may not know what is in store for me. However, I always know how I prefer to respond to my circumstances whatever they may be.
Raphael Zernoff
#87. It could be Fascist, religious or political - it's always the same model that operates in these circumstances, and it's that which is the actuality of this film. Therefore, it's not specifically an explanation of German Fascism because that would be an impossible thing to do in any case.
Michael Haneke
#88. For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.
Henry David Thoreau
#89. Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.
Eric Maisel
#90. The second mode to deal with unsafe cities is to take refuge in vehicles. This is the technique practiced in the big wild-animal reservations of Africa, where tourists are warned to leave their cars under no circumstances until they reach a lodge. It is also the technique practiced in Los Angeles.
Jane Jacobs
#91. I have gotten better at being patient and sitting with discomfort. Before I would worry and try to fix an issue and force circumstances to change or try to change people's minds sooner than was realistic. Now I wait and trust that everything passes and time really does heal everything.
China Forbes
#92. Knowing what o'clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstances.
Diana Gabaldon
#93. Don't let circumstances distress you. Rather, look for the will of God for your life to be revealed in and through those circumstances.
Billy Graham
#94. God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our reading the Bible.
Rick Warren
#95. Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
Mark Twain
#96. 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
#97. Order or disorder depends on organisation; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on dispositions.
Sun Tzu
#98. The training is a set of interpersonal interactions that lead to emotional and intellectual experiences that provide a circumstance and an intrument for self awareness, self observation and reflection on the circumstances of the subject trainee, both in his individual life and as a social being.
Humberto Maturana
#99. It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#100. In the right circumstances, MDMA reduces or sometimes eliminates the neurophysiological fear response to a perceived threat to one's emotional integrity ... With a barrier of fear removed, a loving and forgiving awareness seemed to occur quite naturally and spontaneously.
George Greer
