Circumstance Quotes

501 Circumstance quotes by 404 unique authors

Release and detach from every person, every circumstance, every condition, and every situation that no longer serves a divine purpose in your life. All things… — Iyanla Vanzant
More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together. — Warren G. Bennis
Every individual soul chooses the significant people in that life. Destiny will place you in the particular circumstance; it will dictate that you will encounter… — Brian Weiss
And the faith that grows out of questioning is stronger than the faith born of blind acceptance. It can withstand the shocks of circumstance. Only… — James Dillet Freeman
Yes, beloved reader, our God reigneth, and if we crown Him Lord of all, Lord of our soul, Lord of our body, Lord of all… — Carrie Judd Montgomery
He [the householder] is the appointer of his owne circumstance, and his house is his castle. — Richard Mulcaster
If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in… — Ralph Marston
The world will teach our children if we do not, and children are capable of learning all the world will teach them at a very… — Rosemary M. Wixom
Turmoil is a call for awakening. Every challenge, great or small, is moving you to look deeper and draw forth the highest in you. You're… — Alan Cohen
Absolute consciousness is manifest here in every circumstance of daily life because it is everywhere full and perfect. Consciousness is said to be the cause… — Abhinavagupta
Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability… — Ping Fu
Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the story is the… — Vivian Gornick
There is no circumstance, no trouble, no testing, that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ,… — Alan Redpath
To be born a Southern woman is to be made aware of your distinctiveness. And with it, the rules. The expectations. These vary some, but… — Allison Glock
The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one… — Merle Shain
Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of… — Renata Adler
From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep… — William Barrett
Techniques employ four qualities that reflect the nature of our world. Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a… — Morihei Ueshiba
Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief. — Seneca the Younger
Dhyana is retaining one's tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the… — William Shakespeare
We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted on,… — David Hume
In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy or common life,… — David Hume
Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human… — Walter Scott
Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend. — John Kenneth Galbraith

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