Best 633 quotes in «circumstances quotes» category

Although fear in the right dosage and under the right circumstance protects us ... imaginary fear offers straitjackets instead of lifejackets, nooses instead of safety nets.

Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.

Always, in all circumstances, wear comfortable shoes. You never know when you may have to run for your life.

A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.

An angel and a devil are always beside us, and the one we listen to more will prevail. This confrontation is what makes life so magical because you are always challenged by the circumstances - we are good and evil depending on how we act

And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

Anyone who comes into your life, under any circumstances, has something to teach you.

Anytime someone calls you and identifies themselves with their full name, odds are it isn't someone you want to talk to under any circumstances.

A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances.

Because He's near, we dont have to be anxious or feel out of control. We have peace that rises above any circumstance!

As children of a sovereign God, we are never victims of our circumstances.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.

Bad circumstances have a way of ruining things that would otherwise be pleasant.

Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.

Be truthful, say what you mean and mean what you say, don't ignore the given circumstances.

Believe the truth of God's Word over the facts of your circumstances.

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

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,.

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 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.

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

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.

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

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.

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.

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 make man, not man circumstances.

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

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

Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.

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

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

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.

Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters.

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.

Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

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