Best 633 quotes in «circumstances quotes» category

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.

Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes.

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.

Happiness is not dependent upon outer circumstance. Happiness is falling in love with everything around you, everything inside of you.

Have you ever felt trapped in circumstances, then discovered that the only trap was your own lack of vision, lack of courage, or failure to see that you had better options?

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

He sighed. " I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn't do anything differently, would you?" "No.

He [the householder] is the appointer of his owne circumstance, and his house is his castle.

He that spareth in everything is an inexcusable niggard. He that spareth in nothing is an inexcusable madman. The mean is to spare in what is least necessary, and to lay out more liberally in what is most required in our several circumstances.

History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.

He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone.Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene.A person close to us die.A person not so close to us carries on living.All these things affect how we live.

Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.

Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.

Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world.

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.

Human beings are inherently endowed with the power to bring out the best possible results from the worst possible circumstances.

How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.

Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.

I agree with God’s Word; I disagree with any condition, situation or circumstance contrary to that Word.

I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.

I am an ardent supporter of Israel in all situations and in all circumstances.

I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop, but I would recommend strongly that a person maintain his cool, and in no circumstances lose his temper. If you lose your temper, you are playing right into the cop's hands.

I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.

I believe our techno-zealotry will be moderated by sheer circumstance. We will do what reality compels us to do, not necessarily what our fantasies propose.

I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.

I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.

I didn't have this rebellious streak in me. To me, I'm a product of circumstance.

I didn't have a job. Employers were afraid of losing their reputations. I didn't have a reputation. I had zilch. So, I had the freedom, which unemployment gives you, and that was to behave as badly as I believed I should under the circumstances. And the circumstances were quite awful.

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance.

I'd like to think that in any circumstance I'd say, "You know what? Screw this. Kill me. I'm done. I'm not going to grovel.

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.

I feel I`ve always been on the outside and always on the edge of an abyss. The women I portray, and the woman I am, are ordinary but maybe find themselves in extra-ordinary circumstances, and what they do is at great cost.

I don't believe that France is capable of reform - at least not in normal times. Fortunately, we are experiencing exceptional circumstances at the moment. It is a moment in which everything is possible.

I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.

I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.

I don't teach my students, I provide the circumstances in which they can learn.

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre.

If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.

I felt that we could hardly improve on the conception of the university expressed by one of the founders of the modern system, Wilhelm von Humboldt, also one of the founders of classical liberalism. That seems to me true today as well, though ideals of course have to be adapted to changing circumstances.

If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

If it (the good circumstances) changes will you be able to keep onto your happiness just as much? Because if not then your happiness is really built on sand.