Circumstances Quotes
The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.
You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
If you are not consciously directing your life, you will lose your footing and circumstances will decide for you.
Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.
There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.
My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation.
Your success and usefulness in the world is going to be measured by your confession and by the tenacity with which you "hold fast" that confession under all circumstances.
Trust God to take care of you in all circumstances. Do you realize what the enemy will lose if you surrender and trust God?
Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite.
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.
Circumstances don't matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
God doesn't always change the circumstances, but He can change us to meet the circumstances. That's what it means to live by faith.
When we face the worst that can happen in any situation, we grow. When circumstances are at their worst, we can find our best.
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.
Rise above your circumstances, change the world one person at a time starting with you, and be the inspiration you’ve been searching for.
There must be a stronger foundation than mere friendship or sexual attraction. Unconditional love, agape love, will not be swayed by time or circumstances.
Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.
When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.
Become aware of what you are thinking and you will recognize a law between your mood and your surrounding circumstances.
As daughters of God we are each unique and different in our circumstances and experiences. And yet our part matters—because we matter.
To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.
Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls.
Never allow the circumstances of your life to become an excuse. People will allow you to do it. But I believe we have a personal obligation to make the most of the abilities we have.
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?
While a little faith may bring your souls to heaven, a lot of faith--clinging to God despite your circumstances--will bring heaven to your soul
Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.
You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.
People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.
Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up.
Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
Life from nonlife, like wine from water, has long been considered a miracle wrought by gods or God. Now it is seen to be the near-inevitable consequence of our thermal and chemical circumstances.