Character Quote by William James Download Open image “Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Circumstances Doe Inspirational
It's not your circumstances that shape you, it's how you react to your circumstances. — Anne Ortlund Copy Share Image
Sometimes circumstance blinds us at first from seeing people for who they really are. — Dan Levy Copy Share Image
Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself. — Lindsay Wagner Copy Share Image
No matter what you're going through, there is no temporary feeling or circumstance that can take away the core of who you are. — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
You may feel singled out when adversity enters your life. You shake your head and wonder, 'Why me?' — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty. — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
I feel that nothing important ever happens that is not revealed to me beforehand. — Anne Hutchinson Copy Share Image
People always want to think that because you're not from a certain circumstance, you can't relate. That's ridiculous. — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered… — William James Copy Share Image
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and… — William James Copy Share Image
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere. — William James Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
