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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• Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

  James Lane Allen

  Men, Determine

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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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• 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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  I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “An Effective Life: Inspirational Philosophy from Dr. Covey’s Life”, p.88, FranklinCovey Co.

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• We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.

  Pema Chodron

  Choices, Scare, Resentful

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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• Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Intelligent, Power, Hypnosis

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• The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

  Aristotle

  Life, Gratitude, Courage

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, I, 1101a, www.perseus.tufts.edu.

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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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• A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

  Hugh Downs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

  Booker T. Washington

  Character, Men

  "Democracy and Education". Booker T. Washington's Speech at Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn NY, September 30, 1896.

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• Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strength, Strong, Believe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.432

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• No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Character, Angel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

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• It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.

  Vivien Greene

  Inspirational, Soulmate, Contentment

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• Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Political, Causes, Charity

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

  James Allen

  Change, Ignorance, Men

  James Allen (2016). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.7, Xist Publishing

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• It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Mistake, Israel, Doe

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• Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

  Clive Bell

  Religious, Art, Mean

  'Art' (1914) pt. 2, ch. 1

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• I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.

  Charles Simeon

  Forgiving, Reason Why, Should

  Charles Simeon (1847). “Memoirs of the life of the Rev. Charles Simeon ...”, p.303

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• I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.

  Irvine Welsh

  People, Humanity, Sometimes

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• People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.

  Anthony Powell

  Thinking, People, Biographies

  Anthony Powell (2010). “Hearing Secret Harmonies: Book 12 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.84, University of Chicago Press

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