Circumstances Quotes · Page 21

If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed,

— Jerry Moran

Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances.

— Leigh Brackett

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

— Samuel Johnson

Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.

— Linus Torvalds

Living with mental illness is not a choice and can lead to debilitating circumstances.

— Jessica Mulroney

I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.

— Malcolm McDowell

Judo teaches us to look for the best possible course of action, whatever the individual circumstances.

— Kano Jigoro

The magnet principle says, 'Like attracts like.' You'll attract to you the people, circumstances, events, money and resources you need to accomplish…

— Mark Victor Hansen

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

— Horace

“Ms. Friday taught me that your circumstances do not define you. If you really want to do something, if you make up…

— Jimmy Wayne

An Awkward Feeling In This World; Is When You Secretly Try To Look At The Person You Admire The Most... And You…

— Pacifiersucker

Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and…

— Jurgen Moltmann

Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.

— Ernst Mach

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

— Sterling W Sill

It Is Nice When Someone Holds An Umbrella For You In The Rain... But It Is The Most Wonderful If Someone Holds…

— Anonymous

“When we are faced with circumstances, He gives us the Power to endure! When we are faced with loss, He grants us…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Resistance keeps you stuck. Surrender immediately opens you to the greater intelligence that is vaster than the human mind, and it can…

— Eckhart Tolle

When it comes right down to it, people are quite similar. We may come from different backgrounds, cultures, and economic circumstances, and…

— M. Russell Ballard

We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let…

— Pema Chodron

Is it a good hot dog? That’s all I want to know … I don’t think the personal health and purity of…

— Anthony Bourdain

When you don't take responsibility, when you blame others, circumstances, fate or chance, you give away your power. When you take and…

— Jeff Olson

The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I…

— Joshua Leonard

Once you connect to a film, things flow naturally. And there are times where you don't connect with a film. In these…

— Amit Trivedi

Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me, but that…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

In order to trust God, we must always view our adverse circumstances through the eyes of faith, not of sense. And just…

— Jerry Bridges

The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures,…

— John Dalton

“Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

People do make considered choices about whether they want to fight, and how, and they do so from disparate circumstances. But I…

— Joshua Clover

He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Let man only approach his own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within…

— D. H. Lawrence

It's often hard to determine, especially in early drafts, whether or not a story has a bona fide complication. Remember this: A…

— Monica Wood

Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

— Samuel Lover

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.

— Charles Spurgeon

When you can't change your circumstances, there's one thing you can change: your energy.

— Ryan Serhant

Choices in life are not and should not be determined by our life circumstances.

— Karni Liddell

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

— Darryl Anka

I give it up to women who have the power to keep their spirit alive under very difficult circumstances.

— Emily Saliers

But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.

— James Madison