Circumstances Quote by Thor Heyerdahl

It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for…

— Paulo Coelho

Circumstances don't always align themselves with human intention.

— Kristin Cashore

Often we judge ourselves by our intentions and everyone else by their actions.

— John Bevere

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

— Mother Maribel

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later,…

— Anonymous

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister…

— Emile Souvestre

Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way they do. We too often judge…

— Sean Covey

We tend to judge others by their behavior, and ourselves by our intentions.

— Anonymous

“We judge one another by our outward actions, but in the motive underlying those actions our judgment may be widely at fault. Preoccupied by…

— The Detection Club

We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the root of…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we…

— Richard Steele