Best 633 quotes in «circumstances quotes» category

British business is disappointed that the MPC felt unable to act more boldly to counter the worsening economic circumstances and the sharp slowdown in the pace of economic activity,.

Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.

But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.

But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts.

But regardless of our circumstances, they do not define us - not unless we give in and let them. Circumstances never determine who we are; they reveal who we are.

But there's a decision that I find God is asking us to make: whether we are going to choose to interpret our circumstances based on what we hold to be true about God, or whether we're going to judge what we hold to be true about God based on our circumstances.

By nature I will find hope in everything. Even if it's the most incredibly hopeless situation or circumstance. That's just me... I'll never be able to see things any other way.

By releasing control over circumstances, you gain more control over your life.

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

Certainly there are times in all of our lives when bad things happen, or things don’t turn out as we had hoped. But that’s when we we must a decision that we’re going to be happy inspite of our circumstances.

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

Character is never built in a classroom; it is built in the circumstances of life.

Circumstances beyond my individual control.

Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.

Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.

Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

Circumstances are the seeds of literature.

Circumstances do not determine state of being; state of being determines circumstances.

Circumstances do not make you what you are, they reveal what you are.

Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.

Confidence is a characteristic of a positive attitude. The greatest achievers and leaders remain confident regardless of circumstances.

Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

Contentment is accepting God's sovereign control over all of life's circumstances.

Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

Cops, the law's the law. You see somebody break it, you've got to be willing to enforce it. And doing that enhances the confrontational aspect of the whole circumstance. The more the confrontational aspect is ratcheted up the more danger is involved. It's gutsy work.

Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters.

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.

Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.

Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.

Earlier attempts to show that simpler theories always have higher prior probabilities have failed, but there is a restricted circumstance in which the claim is right.

Do not let circumstances defeat you. You can if you think you can.

Don’t be afraid when you have to pray fervently because of your circumstances. God is wanting to do something great through you!

Don't let circumstances distress you. Rather, look for the will of God for your life to be revealed in and through those circumstances.

Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and you will make of their circumstances the litter you have made of your own.

Even though we often mess up, most of us are doing the best that we know how with the circumstances that surround us.

Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.

Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

Either you are creating your life or the circumstances are.

Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.

Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.

Every job has a unique situational circumstance.