“Very few people are able to discount the effect of circumstances upon their own characters.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“You two had something special – it’s the circumstances that were shitty.” — Andrea Randall Copy Share Image
“All the circumstances are natural whilst the tranquility is our own [the Self's]! ” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed, — Jerry Moran Copy Share Image
Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances. — Leigh Brackett Copy Share Image
Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My husband Terry and I are mostly monogamous. . . . There are times — certain set and limited circumstances — when… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
To me good storytelling is about journeys. It's about people's journeys, people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries; circumstances that… — Scott Cohen Copy Share Image
I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time,… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
I generally don't like it when people talk about regrets because you do your best, and you deal with the circumstances that… — Theo Walcott Copy Share Image
If I can encourage and get somebody to get through what they're dealing with, their set of circumstances, that's the right thing… — Chuck Pagano Copy Share Image
I promise you that when the circumstances arise where I have a difference on policy or on presentation, I have - I… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Know that I've forgotten precisely nothing; but I've driven it all out of my head for a time, even the memories--until I've… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Victory over all the circumstances of life comes not by might, nor by power, but by a practical confidence in God and… — Eric Liddell Copy Share Image
You do have to keep in mind as you're going through extraordinarily difficult circumstances, that if you stay true, true to your… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
When you believe, the impossible becomes possible. What you believe will become what is true. Your optimism today will determine your level… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the… — Catherine Crowe Copy Share Image
you must not, under any circumstances, allow yourself to hate. Not because your tormentors have not earned it. But if you allow… — Irina Ratushinskaya Copy Share Image
Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world,… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it… — Strobe Talbott Copy Share Image
In every remodelling of the present, the existing condition of things must be supplanted by a new one. Now every variety of… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Let a person only approach his or her own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
What is needed is not a change of circumstance, but a change of consciousness. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Contentment is accepting God's sovereign control over all of life's circumstances. — Linda Dillow Copy Share Image
The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life. — John Updike Copy Share Image
We are built from a DNA blueprint and born into a world of scenario and circumstance we don't control. — Hannibal Copy Share Image
In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image