Circumstances Quotes

• Upon the shoulders of you mothers rests; in a great measure, the responsibility of correctly developing the mental and moral powers of the rising generation...I have often said it is the mother who forms the mind of the child. Take men anywhere, at sea, sinking with their ship, dying in battle, lying down in death almost under any circumstances, and the last thing they think if, the last word they say is "mother." Such is the influence of woman.

  

  Wilford Woodruff
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Lying

• Be proactive. Ask yourself, "Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?"

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Action
  • Feelings
  • Mood

• There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Virtue
  • Behavior
  • Condemning

• Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Circumstances

• Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Circumstances

• Every poet is partly creator and partly the creature of circumstances.

  

  George Gilfillan
  • Circumstances
  • Poet
  • Creator

• A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Church
  • Circumstances
  • Conference

• We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Reality
  • Quality
  • Choices

• What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against a sweating wall, That place among the rocks--is it a cave, Or winding path? The edge is what I have........ ....... Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. ~From "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Soul
  • Desire
  • Dark

• Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Circumstances
  • Fortune
  • Artificer

• In August they had a bad fright. Her lawyer had suggested that—in view of the circumstances—they drop the divorce. This filled them both with profound dread; at the thought of staying married, of sinking back into the deadly boredom of their pre-divorce days, they felt nothing but horror. They realized more than ever that marriage for them was unthinkable.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Married
  • Divorce
  • Horror

• God's grace is not given to make us feel better, but to glorify Him... Good feelings may come, or they may not, but that is not the issue. The issue is whether or not we honor God by the way we respond to our circumstances.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Circumstances
  • Issue
  • God's Grace

• Your circumstances don't dictate your future. ... Your circumstances don't limit you.

  

  Richard Sherman
  • Future
  • Circumstances
  • Limits

• The German countryside must be preserved under all circumstances, for it is and has forever been the source of strength and greatness of our people.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • People
  • Circumstances
  • Source

• Abortion happens because of economic circumstances.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Circumstances
  • Economic
  • Abortion

• The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one could be, we choose the comfort of the failed role, preferring to be the victim of circumstance, the person who didn't have a chance.

  

  Merle Shain
  • Sometimes
  • Persons
  • Comfort

• Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.

  

  Susan Griffin
  • Change
  • Perspective
  • Circumstances

• God allows and at times causes us to go through the kinds of circumstances that strip away all falsehood and leave us with our real selves. God's ultimate intent is not to leave us faithless, but to leave us faith-full. There are few things as exhilarating as going through the fire and finding that you had the resilience to make it through. All of us wonder at times whether we have what it takes. God wants to bring us to a place where we have no doubt of the work He has done within us.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • God
  • Resilience
  • Falsehood

• There are no circumstances in your life where God will not stand will not stand with you and help you, no matter what the trouble may be.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • God
  • Help
  • Circumstances

• It has the property of detonating very violently in certain circumstances. On one occasion a small amount of ether solution of pyroglycerin condensed in a glass bowl. ... When the bowl was heated over a spirit lamp, an extremely violent explosion occurred, which shattered it into small fragments. On another occasion a drop was heated in a test-tube, and exploded with such violence that the glass splinters cut deep into my face and hands, and hurt other people who were standing some distance off in the room.

  

  Ascanio Sobrero
  • Circumstances
  • Detonating

• We're not in control of circumstances, but that does not mean we don't exercise a certain kind of conditioned agency. That's what it means to live in a community. That's what it means to live in society.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Society
  • Community
  • Agency

• Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Ability
  • Response
  • Conditions

• It's not your circumstances that shape you, it's how you react to your circumstances.

  

  Anne Ortlund
  • Circumstances
  • Shape
  • React

• All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Evil
  • Cold
  • Poor

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