Circumstance Quotes

501 quotes by 414 authors

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned… — Neil Armstrong
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. — James A. Baldwin
Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of… — Cate Blanchett
People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know… — Jeb Bush
If you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete, even if it had messed… — Tupac Shakur
Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned… — John C. Maxwell
Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to its size, and… — John Playfair
Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations. — Charles Francis Richter
The only reason we stress is something is happening that we decided should not be happening. It is not the circumstance that is the problem.… — Kyle Cease
War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. it increases the… — Carl von Clausewitz
Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal… — Seneca the Younger
What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance? — Theodore Roethke
It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad. — Plutarch
Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance. — Benjamin Disraeli
Faith is the recognition that Spirit works in, as and through each and all of us - through every person and every circumstance. — Dan Millman
Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident. It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice. Choose to live a life that matters. — Michael Josephson
Do not miss the purpose of this life, and do not wait for circumstance to mold or change you fate. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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