Best 633 quotes in «circumstances quotes» category

It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.

It isn't myself that's important in this transaction apparently; the individual doesn't count much in the situation...all of us are more or less pawns. We're moved about like chessmen by circumstances over which we have no control.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent

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.

It is so important that you don't get distracted by what you are not. You need to start confessing your persona and living in it, and don't be bewildered by your circumstances. Just stay on course with what God is promising you.

It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.

It might take an act of God to convince some Americans that parts of their government are corrupt, but at the same time, you cannot, under any circumstances, persuade an Iranian that his government is not corrupt!

It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.

It never really was difficult for me not starting because I understood the circumstances.

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

It’s not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn’t even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves.

It's just as possible to live to the full in a narrow corner as it is in bigness.

It's not like I'm looking to describe something that's only true of my own circumstances. It's beyond. It's way inside, you know. It's reaching inside to something that you have in common with many.

It's the "Success Paradox." When a set of behaviors has gotten you somewhere, you keep doing them even though the circumstances have changed.

It's not your circumstances that make or break your day. It's your attitude!

It's the circumstances of popular monarchy, the manner in which it's developed, and it is also the fault of the people who present her with this unquestioning adulation. In other words, it's their lack of a larger faith. Which makes them fasten onto, a purely earthly symbol.

I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.

It wasn't really that hard to act when you see somebody holding a gun to your partner. It's also believing the circumstances and I believed it.

It was certainly an accident, an accident caused by a series of circumstances and coincidences

I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances.

I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!

I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances.

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

Joy isn't grounded in our circumstances; it is grounded in the unchanging character of God.

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

Know that I've forgotten precisely nothing; but I've driven it all out of my head for a time, even the memories--until I've radically improved my circumstances. Then...then you'll see, I'll rise from the dead!

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

Let us consider the polarity of love and hate.... Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by hate (ambivalence), and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but also that in many circumstances hate changes into love and love into hate.

Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.

Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.

Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

Live your life with a smile regardless the circumstances.

Living faith is above circumstances; no delays can discourage it, no loss of friends or depression in trade can touch it.

Make your plans to fit the circumstances.

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

Many many external circumstances are outside of your control, but will affect the outcome, and you have to be OK with that.

McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.

Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.

... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.

More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.

Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.

Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it.

Much can be learned in play that will afterwards be of use when the circumstances demand it.

Most of the humor comes from how outrageous the situations and circumstances are.

My life has been so fortunate. I have had most extraordinary good fortune in my life. I sort of put it into three categories, the three major stepping stones. One being London Hippodrome theater stage debut when I was 12, when it started my career. The second being going to Broadway. And the third going to Hollywood. Each one of those happened under the most extraordinary circumstances.