Best 633 quotes in «circumstances quotes» category

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.

If you look at your circumstances you will put off doing what God is telling you to do. It can seem like the worst time to do whatever God says to do. BUT there is an anointing on "now" if God has told you to act.

If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.

... I have always been a disappointment to my friends. I have no gift of talk, not much to say; and though I have always been an excellent listener, that only succeeds under auspicious circumstances.

I like the idea of love standing the test of time and circumstances.

I have been allowed to inhabit different shades of human nature and different colours of truth indifferent circumstances.

I just do the best I can under the circumstances.

I have played a lot games, worked with a lot of these players and learnt an awful lot. I've got the knowledge and leadership qualities. So, its normal that under these circumstances that I got into coaching. I'm learning an awful lot.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children.

I'm aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself.

In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.

In 'Imitation of Life', I was showing how a girl might feel under the circumstances, but I am not showing how I felt.

[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting.

In no country and under no circumstances is it possible to launch resistance unless the government approves of this.

In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.

Integrity is keeping a commitment even after circumstances have changed.

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.

In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.

I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.

In the segregated South, education was almost like armor. It was a way to put yourself in a category where even with the slings and arrows and humiliations of racism and segregation, somehow you had better control of the situation. I always said my parents understood that you might not be able to control your circumstances, but they and their parents believed that you could control your reaction to your circumstances.

In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances.

I prefer law to war under all circumstances.

I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance.

I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are

I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances

I think even with women who come across with a tough exterior, the interior is the same. I think you'll find this with women around the word: some women, because of their circumstances, are forced to be tougher, forced to cultivate tougher exteriors.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

I think it's good that opportunity, like circumstances, can really affect what you do and you have no control over it.

It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.

I think the community that you're in really can define your ability to be at peace with your circumstances.

It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.

It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.

It is not God's function to create or uncreate the circumstances of your life. God created You, in the image and likeness of God. You have created the rest.

It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.

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

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 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 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.