Circumstance Quotes

501 Circumstance quotes by 404 unique authors

Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance — Errol Flynn
No matter what your circumstances are, whether you are in prosperity or in adversity, you can learn from every person, transaction, and circumstance around you. — Brigham Young
The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The art of spirituality is learning to be happy in any condition and in any circumstance. This is the art of love. — Frederick Lenz
When confronted with iron-will determination, I can see Time, Fate and Circumstance calling a hasty conference and deciding, We might as well let him have… — Jim Rohn
There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and… — Alphonse de Lamartine
We all have circumstances, choose not to live in your circumstance, but live in your vision! — Chuck Pagano
Be governed by your calling, not your circumstance. — Steven Furtick
Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature… — Albert Einstein
Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands.… — Basmah bint Saud
To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data.… — Christian Nestell Bovee
All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal… — Jean de la Bruyere
A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in so far as… — C.S. Lewis
The "determinist" swears that if we knew everything we should also be able to deduce and foretell the conduct of every man in every circumstance,… — Paul Valery
Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right. — William Hazlitt
In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized that, basically, all… — Jane Goodall
Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through… — Ani DiFranco
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us. — George Eliot
How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following… — Allyson Felix
Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American… — Sam Harris

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