Quotes about circumstances

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

Ability and luck makes success happen ,no matter what the circumstances are.

Under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exciting and vital, full of rude poetry: the heartbeat of the West as it fought its way upward toward civilization.

Worry is most often a prideful way of thinking that you have more control over life and its circumstances than you actually do.

Is it possible that the reason you feel as if God doesn't see you or your problems or care about your stress is because you are focused on you, instead of God?

Given their current circumstances, things would have to be very bad indeed for Tilly to think the situation had gotten worse. Sure, they were all trapped in orbit around an alien space station that periodically changed the rules of physics and had killed a bunch of them, but now they’d decided to start shooting each other too.Yes, very bad.

God has prepared our victory for us, if only we will praise Him in all circumstances

On no account should you entertain being a victim of your own circumstances. When unexpected failure occurs, you can turn it into success.

It's normal for us to become unhappy for a while due to how circumstances in life treat us, but it is ungodly for us to be ungrateful for these circumstances that make us unhappy!

Don't neglect adverse situations. Sometimes, they carry the yolk of great differences. When you break them away, you waste the yolk!

You don’t write a book when God called you to publish a library! You don’t plant a tree when God send you to cultivate a forest! You don’t evangelize to a crowd when God called you for a multitude! No matter the circumstances, find yourself doing something relevant and do it till all is well done!

Refuse to become a victim of your circumstances and give a lift to your potentials each and every day against the wish of any obstacle you encounter!

Stop the pity party! Your sorrow is full and complete when you go through unfortunate circumstances and decide to mourn for life as a result of the unexpected.

Circumstance points to deeper meaning.

Be strong in spirit, you can conquer every circumstance.

We can't help but rejoice despite the circumstance.

You can’t just run away from uncomfortable situation. You have to develop new strategy to graciously handle the situation.

A decision is not an incident, it is result of hundreds of circumstances and thousands of thoughts.

Most people who are global achievers were once victims of greater circumstances than yours, but they had one word to sum it up; "They never give up!

The only way to prevent your problem from jubilating over you is to confront them head to head with the singular hope that they will be defeated!

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

I think it was Alfred Hitchcock who said that 90% of successful movie making is in the casting. The same is true in life. Who you are exposed to, who you choose to surround yourself with is a unique variable in all of our experience, and it is hugely important in making us who we are.

When we start to understand God, we will be offended less and we will react less to negative circumstances

Change is like the skin peeling off of a snake. It is slow. It is sticky. And sometimes you have to rub against a hard place to pull yourself through it. But in the end, you realize that it was worth it all to get the the new place and new person you have become.

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

We can adapt to changing circumstances with a resolved spirit.

Well… er -”“Expecting a rescue is beyond hope under the circumstances!” Sam Barthoff, Mayor of Atro City, interrupted grimly, throwing up his hands in hopelessness. “Hopeless!

No one could endure lasting adversity if it continued to have the same force as when it first hit us. We are all tied to Fortune, some by a loose and golden chain, and others by a tight one of baser metal: but what does it matter? We are all held in the same captivity, and those who have bound others are themselves in bonds - unless you think perhaps that the left-hand chain is lighter. One man is bound by high office, another by wealth; good birth weighs down some, and a humble origin others; s

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

The very precariousness of weather excites a large amount of earnest prayer.

We were not born into this life knowingthat we were going to becomerich or poor, striving or with a celeb status, sick or healthy.But one thing that I know is thatthe human mind is a powerful tool to achieve success. No matter the circumstances,greatness is when you pushyourself above the odds.

You can always choose how you prefer to respond to any external circumstances. Do not define your happiness by what is happening around you. Be happy only because this is what you enjoy doing.

Reasoning with senselessness will never build faith. Faith is strengthened when you stop collecting fragmented signs and questionable hunches, in order to build an acceptable reason for your wrong decisions and less than desirable circumstances.

Expect the best, prepare for the worst.

Every circumstance is an opportunity to re-define your confident level.

Just say it: I'm angry and no one will like me. God: No, I will not say that. But don't you think we ached for you to find a love you could share your whole life with? I used your teachers to encourage you creatively when the church could not... I worked with whatever I got my hands on. Can you see that?

If my mind was in your body going through the same circumstances. I would act differently, and likewise. Judging in nature is separation.

If you live a righteous life, then you should be exalted above situations and circumstances in life

In most circumstances and mostly, what hinders people from leaving distinctive footprints of life is less of physical barriers and much of mental barriers. What dominates your thought each day? Mind your mind.

We are a product of the choices we make, not the circumstances that we face.

Happenstance is the myth of the simple mind, for it is the deliberate genius of God that what appears entirely disjointed always reveals itself to be stunningly seamless. And it is in reflecting on such stunning ingenuity that our faith becomes seamless.

There is no easy way out of our circumstances...Sometimes you stick it out even when you want to give up because you know that on the other side is either a better situation or a better you." -Watercrossing (Phantom Island Book 3)

You don't invent circumstances, but when they happen they reveal human nature.

Prayer is never out of season: in summer and in winter its merchandize is precious. Prayer gains audience with heaven in the dead of night, in the midst of business, in the heat of noonday, in the shades of evening. In every condition, whether of poverty, or sickness, or obscurity, or slander, or doubt, your covenant God will welcome your prayer and answer it from His holy place.

Sometimes our wants or needs have nothing to do with being ungrateful and everything to do with making a mistake.

Circumstances don't determine who you are, or what you will be. Only you do that. You either decide, or you don't. Even the decision not to decide was still yours.

Wise is the woman who rises above her circumstances.

It takes great character and understanding of human emotions to help someone you shouldn't be helping under normal circumstances.

Never permit circumstances to change your plans, but give so much character to your plans that they will change circumstances. Give so much character to the current of your work that all things will be drawn into that current, and that which at first was but a tiny rivulet, will thus be swelled into a mighty, majestic stream.

There is always a solution to any problem.Find opportunities in any circumstance. Never become a victim.

I once thought it would take a miracle to improve my circumstances. Now, I believe it will take something far more powerful, if such a thing exists.

... each of us describes our existence by means of objects which are indifferent to us, which survive us, and which are then thrown back into the common stock from which they are soon gathered again and ascribed other roles in other circumstances.

Never underestimate the capacity for romance, no matter what the circumstances.

Wisdom gives you the understanding of how to live without being dependent oncircumstances in this life.

Don't let circumstances determine your fate. Choose your fate and mold circumstances to fit your fate of choice.

Find then follow the path that enables you to live the life you want to live. Don't be blow by the winds of fate. Don't be a creation of circumstances.

Things don't happen for a reason, we make reasons out of things that happen.

Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the blue, in the middle of the day, at the center of a public place, like a cerebral attack. Check mated by 'daily routine', he may feel trapped in a smothering set of circumstances and only a deconstruction of all impeding barriers can bring about a vital mental deliverance. ( "Check and mate" )

We don’t just believe that God is real, but in tough circumstances we believe that he knows the way out

RSL has more star-liners than any other company, and covers every commercial route in known space. Demeter is one of the biggest, carrying up to 4500 passengers and crew at any single point on its never-ending, circular cruise around the Terran Empire. And me? Where do I fit in? My name is Sean Lange, and you will probably have never heard of me. It’s sad somehow, I always wanted to leave some kind of a legacy in this life, and perhaps to be remembered. Instead, circumstances have arranged it so

#Cats are marvelous creatures - they either adapt to circumstances, or decide to make circumstances adapt to them. Either way - they win.

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked.Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.

Perseverance is one of the keys to overcome the adverse circumstances of life.

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances—it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

I’ve always known my circumstances were far, far from the worst, but I truly believe that just the slightest misalignment in our upbringings can have such a dramatic knock-on effect on our lives.

Purification and redemption are such recurrent themes in ritual because there is a clear and ubiquitous need for them: we all do regrettable things as a result of our own circumstances, and new rituals are frequently invented in response to new circumstances.

Even though we often mess up, most of us are doing the best that we know how with the circumstances that surround us.

No human being should be maltreated under any circumstances. We are all wonderful creation of God. May we affectionately love one another.

Things might not be great, but things would be okay.

Lightning can best be seen in the dark...Bright persons do best in bad circumstances

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.

Avoid letting circumstances control your decisions and dictate your actions, thereby controlling your life.

You have to control the circumstances and things in your life. They should not control you

Are you in control of your life, or are circumstances in control of you.

Be in control of your life, don’t let circumstances come to control you.

The way to control circumstances is to control the forces within yourself to make a greater man of yourself, and as you become greater and more competent, you will naturally gravitate into better circumstances. In this connection, we should remember that like attracts like. If you want that which is better, make yourself better. If you want to realize the ideal, make yourself more ideal. If you want better friends, make yourself a better friend. If you want to associate with people of worth, mak

Take charge of your life! The tides do not command the ship. The sailor does.

In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the Academy of Architecture and, with it, an Italian-speaking university in Switzerland.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation.

If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

Transactional politics requires us to be pragmatic about current realities and the state of public opinion. It's all about getting the best result possible given the circumstances here and now.

I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.

He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.

We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy for the circumstances of someone's life? That's what I was interested in.

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?

It is not what happens to you that matters it is how you feel about it that does.

Sometimes in life our master will teach us and then test us like this. He will send the same painful circumstances to us over and over again until we no longer want what isn’t good for us until he is sure that we have learned what we need to know so that he can move us on to new kinds of lessons and experience.

The only side God chooses is one of commonsense. If it doesn’t make sense it is not God.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.