Circumstances Quotes
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They are inherently good - the bad reactions aren't basic. Every human being is a child of God and has more good in him than evil - but circumstances and associates can step up the bad and reduce the good. I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.
Norman Vincent Peale -
Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
Aristotle
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
Samuel Lover -
During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.
Maya Angelou -
In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.
J. B. Priestley -
To constitute a dispute there must be two parties. To understand it well, both parties and all the circumstances must be fully heard; and to accommodate the differences, temper and mutual forbearance are requisite.
George Washington -
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.
George Bernard Shaw -
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
Earl Nightingale
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A joyful rebellion is you living differently not because you're mad at how things are but because you are swelling with joy at the thought of how things could be. When you joyfully rebel against your circumstances, against mediocrity or negativity, you invite others into something really beautiful.
Brad Montague -
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
Jack Canfield -
The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
J. Paul Getty -
There is an ocean of Gods love available-there is plenty for everyone. May God grant you never to doubt that victorious love-whatever the circumstances.
Corrie Ten Boom -
Circumstances should never alter principles!
Oscar Wilde -
When speculators have once entered Wall Street, they never leave it except in a pine box or a rosewood case, according to circumstances.
H. W. Brands
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
William James -
LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
Kate Millett -
To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
Abraham Lincoln -
As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.
Confucius -
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
Sam Rayburn
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When you pray, things remain the same, but you begin to be different. The same thing when a man falls in love, his circumstances and conditions remain the same, but he has a sovereign preference in his heart for another person which transfigures everything!
Oswald Chambers -
Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
Rafael Cruz -
Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
Larry Gagosian -
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
Dani Shapiro