The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace. — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
Issues of life, circumstances, people and problems might challenge our belief system, but no force on earth... can take away from us...… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we're able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people you think about most! — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I under no circumstances want to be seen as a victim. I have worked with victims of sexual violence and I don't… — Jess Phillips Copy Share Image
Since time immemorial it had been the custom before a sea battle for the men to wash and don clean clothes in… — Richard Hough Copy Share Image
It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won. We must conquer all our circumstances there.… — John Henry Jowett Copy Share Image
The court was unable to rule on all circumstances in which nuclear weapons might be used, and it said in view of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
That's one thing you Americans take for granted, you know? That you can grow up, you know, not so good circumstances, and… — Ory Okolloh Copy Share Image
[T]he true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties... everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see.… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Proverbs, and the wisdom literature in general, counter the idea that being spiritual means handing all decisions over to the leading of… — Graeme Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
The gospel of Jesus Christ has the divine power to lift you to great heights from what appears at times to be… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
All of the external circumstances and the rude and difficult people we meet, instead of getting angry, upset, or frustrated, we see… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I still work that expectation/disappointment cycle all the time. I think it is part of the human nature and I think the… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
Once a big loss has happened it is part of the picture forever. Not something you "get over." While each loss has… — Victoria Redel Copy Share Image
That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another. God said, 'Thou shalt not kill'; at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Industries that make goods and services that people have to buy, regardless of economic circumstances, are bound to do well whatever the… — James O'Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
“You have such knowledge that 'Vyavasthit (the result of Scientific Circumstantial Evidences) has broken the thing. The other person has not broken… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
It is we ourselves who alone shall shape our destinies, rising always above the external circumstances and conditions which from time to… — Emile Coue Copy Share Image
I grew up in financially straitened circumstances and meat, which was expensive, was a rare thing at mealtimes. We ate meat about… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
You can't make people like you under the best of circumstances, and you certainly can't make them like you while you're actively… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
Not everything will go your way in this life, for this reason you must be accepting of all circumstances that come your… — Zahid Abas Copy Share Image
The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs. — John Marshall Harlan II Copy Share Image
“The circumstances of life-the events of life-the people around me in life-do not make me the way I am. They reveal the… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
My word is noting if the circumstance change after I made my decision. Because I am no fool to keep my word,… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Although fear in the right dosage and under the right circumstance protects us ... imaginary fear offers straitjackets instead of lifejackets, nooses… — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Some people believe that holding on and hanging in there are signs of strength. However, there are times in life in which… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image