Circumstances Quotes

• Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Revolution
  • Muslims
  • Centuries

• The word "missing" is particularly cruel, leaving as it does a ray of hope that the person will turn up safe and well, even in the most doomed circumstances. As days go by, it becomes increasingly unlikely and yet and yet...

  

  Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
  • Person
  • Particularly
  • Unlikely

• There is, then, no danger in the circumstances that anti-semitism will disappear, for it is the Jews themselves who add fuel to its flames and see that it is kept well stoked. Before the opposition to it can disappear, the malady itself must disappear. And from that point of view, you can rely on the Jews: as long as they survive, anti-semitism will never fade. (13th February 1945)

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Danger
  • Disappear
  • Point Of View

• If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed to our own misfortunes - it is a consequence of the human condition that we should. But it does nobody any favours to disguise from him the origins of his misfortunes, and pretend that they are all external to him in circumstances in which they are not.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Consequence
  • Misfortunes
  • Disguise

• The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Thoughts
  • Meeting
  • Abundance

• It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically. Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Choices
  • Spirit
  • Habit

• Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Men
  • Food
  • Aphrodisiac

• There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Circumstances
  • Events
  • Principles

• We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

  

  Allan Massie
  • Circumstances
  • Actions
  • Responsible

• The human condition is better improved by altering detrimental circumstances and personal perspectives than by trying to alter personal outlooks, while ignoring the very circumstances that serve to nourish them.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Trying
  • Condition
  • Nourish

• Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

  

  Jonathan Tropper
  • Circumstances
  • Growing Up
  • Tragic

• Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Principle
  • Diet
  • Vegetarian

• All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations of the same living matter. This adapts itself to different jobs and circumstances, but operates on the same basic principles. Muscle contraction is only one of these adaptations. In principle it would not matter whether we studied nerve, kidney or muscle to understand the basic principles of life. In practice, however, it matters a great deal.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Life
  • Different
  • Science

• Unbelief puts our circumstance between us and God, but faith puts God between us and our circumstances.

  

  F. B. Meyer
  • God
  • Faith
  • Unbelief

• Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Time
  • Good
  • Attention

• Every being in the universe is an expression of the Tao. It springs into existence, unconscious, perfect, free, takes on a physical body, lets circumstances complete it. That is why every being spontaneously honors the Tao. The Tao gives birth to all beings, nourishes them, maintains them, cares for them, comforts them, protects them, takes them back to itself, creating without possessing, acting without expecting, guiding without interfering. That is why love of the Tao is in the very nature of things.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Universe
  • Being
  • Tao

• It is we ourselves who alone shall shape our destinies, rising always above the external circumstances and conditions which from time to time shall be thrown across our paths.

  

  Emile Coue
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Path

• Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Circumstances

• We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, there's still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.

  

  Ishmael Beah
  • Circumstances
  • Chaos
  • Move On

• You, the sons and daughters, the future of Turkiye, even under such circumstances and conditions, your duty is to save the Turkish independence and the Republic, you will find the power you need in the noble blood in your veins.

  

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
  • Daughter
  • Independence
  • Conditions

• In order to trust God, we must always view our adverse circumstances through the eyes of faith, not of sense. And just as the faith of salvation comes through hearing the message of the gospel (Romans 10:17), so the faith to trust God in adversity comes through the Word of God alone. It is only in the Scriptures that we find an adequate view of God's relationship to and involvement in our painful circumstances. It is only from the Scriptures, applied to our hearts by the Holy Spirit, that we receive the grace to trust God in adversity.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Faith
  • Gospel
  • Scriptures

• Well, we're out of time here. Regardless of that, and what might be perceived as our disagreement on the substance of this, my great thanks for coming out and speaking to this under these circumstances.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Time
  • Great
  • Thanks

• You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.

  

  Foster Friess
  • You
  • Control
  • Circumstances

• After all, it's me that needs to change, not my circumstances.

  

  Mike Donehey Tenth Avenue North
  • Change
  • Circumstances

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