Circumstances Quotes - Page 6

• Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

  James Allen

  Encouraging, Inspiration, Not Giving Up

  "As a Man Thinketh". Book by James Allen, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1903.

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• It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Men, Liberty

  Letter to Benjamin Rush, 21 Apr. 1803

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• Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

  Mark Twain

  Atheist, Prayer, Book

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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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• To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Deals, Know How, Knows

  William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.183, Cambridge University Press

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• ... Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and forgiveness and obedience to your will can be transformed.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Ugly, Matter, Love And Forgiveness

  Hannah Hurnard, Darien Cooper (2015). “Hinds' Feet on High Places: The Original and Complete Allegory with a Devotional and Journal for Women by Darien Cooper”, p.316, Destiny Image Publishers

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• There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.

  Bonnie Blair

  Men, Liberty, Quarters

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• Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Running, Spiritual

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.103, Modern Library

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• The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Mrs. Warren's Profession”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Common Sense, Historical, Methodology

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• It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

  Thomas Reid

  Law, Facts, Influence

  Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton (1967). “Philosophical Works”, p.66, Georg Olms Verlag

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• Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Best Effort, People, Mind

  "The Lady Who Does Her Own Work". The Atlantic Monthly, 1864.

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• So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

  Hans Blix

  Tools, Interviews, Certain

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• You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Believe, Artist, Important

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• The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

  Edward Thorndike

  Mean, May, Welfare

  Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.325, Routledge

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• It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

  Karl Marx

  Nature, Law, Different

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• In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Life, Courage, Believe

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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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• We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

  Mark Twain

  Struggle, Training, Association

  Mark Twain (2005). “The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's "Great Dark" Writings”, p.213, Univ of California Press

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• If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, People, Perspective

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.157, Mango Media Inc.

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• If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it.

  James Forrestal

  War, Lying, Europe

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• The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.

  Paul Getty

  Cynical, Events, Way

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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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• What are the proper grounds for joy? Is it circumstance which will determine the stature of my spirit? Ah, no. It is choice. It is always a choice - in the face of any event - for joy.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Happy, Choices, Joy

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• Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Happiness, Real, Doe

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