Circumstance Quotes · Page 5

“It was important to do what needed doing, no matter the day or the circumstance.”

— Ayana Mathis

Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?

— Peter Jennings

You can think your way into or out of almost any circumstance, good or bad.

— Napoleon Hill

Whatever circumstance it is, if you always do your best, then you can't beat yourself up, basically.

— Lexi Ainsworth

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“A hard lesson learned recently; when you are not making an income, you must surrender to some out comes.”

— Robert Wesley Miller

Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice.”

— Jim Collins

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

— Frederick Lenz

In every circumstance, all my life, my mind shows me the possible bad outcome: someone walks down steps, and before I can…

— Richard Bausch

All I am saying is I will be a senator - should there be any special circumstance where the political forces would…

— Mario Monti

You don't know why someone is in a certain circumstance and why they chose to be there. Sometimes it's just about having…

— Megalyn Echikunwoke

“The return of solitude was not quite as Dina expected it to be. These many years I made a virtue of inescapable…

— Rohinton Mistry

A lot of times we base everything just on our immediate circumstance. We don't see a big picture for our lives. We…

— Jennifer Holliday

“In acceptance of the limitations that life imposes on us and in knowing that we can choose our attitude in any given…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

“It is not worth taking delight in any circumstance in this world and in the same manner, it is not worth becoming…

— Dada Bhagwan

You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own…

— John Cusack

God wants us to believe Him to be huge, even if we don't know what to believe Him for in a particular…

— Beth Moore

The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the sins…

— Richard Dawkins

I think circumstance plays a big part in terms of what I do. For example, if I wasn't ever able to show…

— David Shrigley

“The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought, and both pleasant and unpleasant external conditions are factors,…

— James Allen

With a pilot, there's a lot of information that gets packed into 46 minutes or whatever it is. Usually what happens is…

— Eric Dane

“We all know that life has ups and downs; you’ve experienced both. And though you can’t always control what happens outside you,…

— Dan Millman

Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction…

— Eudora Welty

The Circumstance of your life don't have to dictate the outcome of your life.

— Teresa Wilmont

“No matter what a situation or circumstance looks like; know that nothing is ever what it seems. Never loose hope. ”

— Barbara Hart

“Sometimes the things that do not quite happen in your life count for more than the things that do.”

— Frederick Buechner

“everyone is just one unfortunate circumstance—” “—away from being in someone else’s shoes,”

— Samantha Christy

We all have circumstances, choose not to live in your circumstance, but live in your vision!

— Chuck Pagano

People always want to think that because you're not from a certain circumstance, you can't relate. That's ridiculous.

— Hill Harper

“You think me the child of my circumstances: I make my circumstance.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Brad Katsuyama

“One may even have ‘greed’ for self-respect. Greed gives rise to circumstances. When circumstance arises, worldly life arises.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.

— Marcus Aurelius

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

— Plutarch

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

— Anonymous

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

— Bertrand Russell

“Don’t complain of terrible circumstances. It has been proven several times that they are the sources of celebrated trophies.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“The difference between a fear and a circumstance is acceptance”

— Joe Vulgamore

“Whatever comes your way begets the gift of every circumstance.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita