Circumstances Quotes

• Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

  Nido R Qubein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Nido R. Qubein (1997). “Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement”, Wiley

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• To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivation, Don't Give Up, Positivity

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• Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

  Robertson Davies

  Courage, Adversity, Ordinary Extraordinary

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.166, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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  I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

  Martha Washington

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• 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.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 22, 2015

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

  Milton Friedman

  Cutting, Liberty, Taxation

  "Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause". Book by Richard A. Viguerie, 2006.

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

  Allan Massie

  Action, Responsible, Response

  Allan Massie (2010). “A Question Of Loyalties”, p.238, Canongate Books

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• We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

  Epictetus

  Spiritual, Attitude, Inspiration

  Epictetus, Sharon Lebell (2013). “The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Wise, Men

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• The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

  Stephen Bayley

  Men, Assumption, Tradition

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• The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

  Seneca the Younger

  Courage, Powerful, Adversity

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world.

  Brendan Fraser

  World, Horrible, Happens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any time you put a cast like this in compromising circumstances or shake it up a little bit, I think we're all pretty close so we draw on real emotion.

  George Eads

  Real, Thinking, Littles

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• Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

  William James

  Men, Mind, Way

  William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.

  Chuck Robb

  Men, Married, Vulnerable

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• The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Giving, Contribution, Qualified

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• The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

  Walter Scott

  Happiness, Combination, Fortuitous

  sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) (1862). “The Waverley novels. 25 vols.”, p.30

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• In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.

  Pierre Laval

  War, Winning, Europe

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.

  Zhu Rongji

  Reform, Courses, Reformation

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• Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Etc, Events

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.129, Courier Corporation

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• Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

  Bela Lugosi

  Believe, People, Personality

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!

  A. C. Benson

  Jam, Sticks, Pot

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• I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.

  Andre Gide

  Believe, Able, Courses

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.286, Routledge

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• I'm a victim of maybe circumstances, but look at how it worked out?

  Jessica Hahn

  Looks, Victim

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• I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

  Pam Grier

  Poverty

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