Circumstance Quotes

501 Circumstance quotes by 404 unique authors

Your life is in your hands. No matter where you are now, no matter what has happened in your life,you can begin to consciously choose… — Rhonda Byrne
People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who… — Myles Munroe
He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on… — Karen Armstrong
It's strange, I think, the way our lives turn out. Moments of circumstance, when later combined with conscious decisions and actions and a boatload of… — Nicholas Sparks
Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them. — Albert Bandura
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. — Bruce Barton
To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or… — John F. Kennedy
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. — Andrew Solomon
Take action. Every story you've ever connected with, every leader you've ever admired, every puny little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of… — Bradley Whitford
History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance. — Donald Creighton
Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a… — Christopher McCandless
Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible… — Mark Twain
I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other. — Ben Chandler
Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people… — Bill Moyers
We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a… — Mark Twain
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me. — William James
The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order… — Carl Linnaeus
The true test of the American ideal is whether we're able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our… — Barack Obama
I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and ceremonies. — Bitsie Tulloch
You arrive at Formula One being very skeptical, how far can your talent deal with all this, and then you understand those guys are human… — Michael Schumacher
Because the Savior is a resurrected and glorified being, He is not physically with every one of His servants at every moment. But He is… — Henry B. Eyring
What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance. — Chevy Chase
In every circumstance, all my life, my mind shows me the possible bad outcome: someone walks down steps, and before I can do anything to… — Richard Bausch

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