Circumstances Quotes
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Refuse to let your circumstances make you bitter. Do what you must to make them better.
Nicole Kidman
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In this office we do not have problems. We have interesting developments. We have challenges. If we absolute must we may, on occasion, have a slight difficulty. But under no circumstances whatsoever do we have problems.
Karen Miller
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It's better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
Stephen Covey
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I prefer to have playback, but sometimes, you can't have that under most circumstances. First, it is expensive because you need a playback operator and secondly, it threatens a lot of directors. I only watch my performance. I see what is necessary for me so that I can see it right at the moment and I can fix it. That appeals to me a great deal.
James Cromwell
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Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.
Martin Luther
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However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.
Tony Blair
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What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?
Theodore Roethke
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Unlike private enterprise which quickly modifies its actions to meet emergencies - unlike the shopkeeper who promptly finds the wherewith to satisfy a sudden demand - unlike the railway company which doubles its trains to carry a special influx of passengers; the law-made instrumentality lumbers on under all varieties of circumstances at its habitual rate. By its very nature it is fitted only for average requirements, and inevitably fails under unusual requirements.
Herbert Spencer
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Intrinsic security doesn't come from what other people think of us or how they treat us. It doesn't come from our circumstance or out position. It comes from within. It comes from accurate paradigms and correct principles deep in our own mind and heart. It comes from inside-out congruence, from living a life of integrity in which our daily habits reflect our deepest values.
Stephen Covey
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Believe the truth of God's Word over the facts of your circumstances.
Christine Caine
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Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.
Susan Griffin
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It's not your circumstances that shape you, it's how you react to your circumstances.
Anne Ortlund
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Television glorifies war, ... And the reality is we have some remarkably brave men and women who work through such challenging circumstances to make us as safe as we are.
Dave Price
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
Herodotus
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Circumstances beyond my individual control.
Charles Dickens
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I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!
Helen Keller
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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
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We are not buried in history, but surrounded by it. You can't avoid our behavior being shaped by it, to a considerable degree. We have this fantasy that we are free of history. This allows us not to see the circumstances, the historical circumstances of other people.
Russell Banks
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You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance
Errol Flynn
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Why would that be better? ... Look, there are always circumstances.
Bob DuPuy