Circumstances Quotes

• 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
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Habit

• I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Change

• Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

  

  Herodotus
  • Rich
  • Circumstances
  • Fortunate

• 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
  • Action
  • Special
  • Failing

• Circumstances do not create the quality of your life.

  

  Garrison Wynn
  • Quality
  • Circumstances

• Believe the truth of God's Word over the facts of your circumstances.

  

  Christine Caine
  • Believe
  • Facts
  • Circumstances

• The key to overcoming aloneness and a feeling of uselessness for one who is physically able is to step outside yourself by helping others who are truly needy. We promise those who will render this kind of service that, in some measure, you will be healed of the loss of loved ones or the dread of being alone. The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else's circumstances.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Service
  • Helping
  • Promise

• What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Circumstances
  • Madness
  • Nobility

• However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Choices
  • Difficult
  • Abortion

• 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

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

  

  Anne Ortlund
  • Circumstances
  • Shape
  • React

• She had not had a question like that in her mind before. It had made her feel lonely. She wanted to be alone, but not lonely. That was very different; that was something that ached and hurt dreadfully right inside one. It was what one dreaded most. It was what made one go to so many parties; and lately even the parties had seemed once or twice not to be a perfectly certain protection. Was it possible that loneliness had nothing to do with circumstances, but only with the way one met them? Perhaps, she had thought, she had better go to bed. She couldn’t be very well.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Hurt
  • Lonely
  • Loneliness

• 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
  • War
  • Reality
  • Challenges

• The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Secret
  • Christ
  • Circumstances

• Circumstances beyond my individual control.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Control
  • Circumstances

• 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
  • World
  • Soul
  • Lying

• 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
  • Behavior
  • Fantasy
  • Historical

• You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

  

  Errol Flynn
  • Wisdom
  • Circumstances

• Why would that be better? ... Look, there are always circumstances.

  

  Bob DuPuy
  • Look
  • Circumstances

• We are, by astronomical standards, a pampered, cosseted, cherished group of creatures … If the Universe had not been made with the most exacting precision we could never have come into existence. It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in.

  

  John O'Keefe
  • Universe
  • Existence
  • Circumstances

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