Circumstances famous quotes
07-19-2025
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When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.
-- A. B. Simpson -
It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure, some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
-- Abigail Adams -
But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
-- Abigail Adams -
... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.
-- Abigail McCarthy -
Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.
-- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje -
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Faith believes in spite of the circumstances and acts in spite of the consequences.
-- Adrian Rogers -
Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.
-- Albert Bandura -
We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.
-- Aldous Huxley -
It is not the circumstances that make a person a success. It is how that person responds to those circumstances
-- Aleatha Romig -
Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.
-- Allan Massie -
There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.
-- Anita Brookner -
Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.
-- Anne M. Mulcahy -
It's not your circumstances that shape you, it's how you react to your circumstances.
-- Anne Ortlund -
You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.
-- Atul Gawande -
All children should be loved, protected, nurtured --emotionally and intellectually-- respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.
-- Augustus Hare -
God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.
-- Barbara Johnson -
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.
-- Benedict Cumberbatch -
I prefer law to war under all circumstances.
-- Benjamin B. Ferencz -
We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
When circumstances don't fit our ideas they become our difficulties
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way.
-- Benjamin Hoff -
Don't let circumstances distress you. Rather, look for the will of God for your life to be revealed in and through those circumstances.
-- Billy Graham -
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
-- Booker T. Washington -
we ourselves are not something apart from our circumstances. What we are and where we are are one and the same.
-- Brad Warner -
Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world
-- Brendan Fraser -
Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.
-- Brian Tracy -
Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.
-- Brian Tracy -
Stress comes from within; it is your reaction to circumstances, not the circumstances themselves.
-- Brian Tracy -
I like the idea of love standing the test of time and circumstances.
-- Brooke Elliott -
Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.
-- Bryan Adams -
Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
-- Cameron Mackintosh -
I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.
-- Carol Burnett -
In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
-- Catherine the Great -
It never really was difficult for me not starting because I understood the circumstances.
-- Cedric Benson -
People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.
-- Charles Frazier -
Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.
-- Charles Lindbergh -
He that spareth in everything is an inexcusable niggard. He that spareth in nothing is an inexcusable madman. The mean is to spare in what is least necessary, and to lay out more liberally in what is most required in our several circumstances.
-- Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax -
Fate then is that necessity by which a certain result will surely be brought to pass according to the natural course of events however we may vary the particular circumstances which precede the event.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.
-- Chin-Ning Chu -
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Believe the truth of God's Word over the facts of your circumstances.
-- Christine Caine -
Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.
-- Christopher McCandless -
Circumstances don't make you, they reveal you .
-- Chuck Pagano -
We all have circumstances, choose not to live in your circumstance, but live in your vision!
-- Chuck Pagano -
Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
-- Clarence Darrow -
You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change.
-- Clint Eastwood -
You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.
-- Condoleezza Rice -
I'm aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.
-- Cristiano Ronaldo -
Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.
-- Dan Miller -
Circumstances do not determine state of being; state of being determines circumstances.
-- Darryl Anka -
Under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them. Only if a fellah leaves his place of settlement, should we offer to buy his land, at an appropriate price.
-- David Ben-Gurion -
I think even with women who come across with a tough exterior, the interior is the same. I think you'll find this with women around the word: some women, because of their circumstances, are forced to be tougher, forced to cultivate tougher exteriors.
-- David Bezmozgis -
When the coherence of the parts of a stone, or even that composition of parts which renders it extended; when these familiar objects, I say, are so inexplicable, and contain circumstances so repugnant and contradictory; with what assurance can we decide concerning the origin of worlds, or trace their history from eternity to eternity?
-- David Hume -
Integrity is keeping a commitment even after circumstances have changed.
-- David Jeremiah -
Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion.
-- David O. Selznick -
Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
-- Derek Bailey -
There is nothing biologically unusual about a homosexual act of pseudocopulation. Many species indulge in this, under a variety of circumstances.
-- Desmond Morris -
Never let an earthly circumstance disable you spiritually.
-- Donald L. Hallstrom -
Time and circumstances change us...and it is pointless to ask why.
-- Doug Dorst -
More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.
-- Edward Gorey -
There's no scientist I know who wouldn't rather be a charlatan. And when circumstances allow you to be both, why it's great fun!
-- Edwin Land -
Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
I've been a victor of circumstance.
-- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -
Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
-- Epictetus -
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
-- Epictetus -
Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.
-- Eric Maisel -
You have to be disgusted with your current circumstances before your circumstances can change.
-- Eric Thomas -
It's not your circumstances that make or break your day. It's your attitude!
-- Evangeline Lilly -
Unbelief puts our circumstance between us and God, but faith puts God between us and our circumstances.
-- F.B. Meyer -
It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.
-- Ferdinand Christian Baur -
The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
-- Florence Nightingale -
No man can be satisfied with his attainment, although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.
-- Frank Arthur Swinnerton -
And even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.
-- Frank Beddor -
Fulfillment has nothing to do with circumstances.
-- Gangaji -
Circumstances do not create the quality of your life.
-- Garrison Wynn -
The rigidity of those pledges is something I don’t like. The circumstances change and you can’t be wedded to some formula by Grover Norquist. It’s—who the hell is Grover Norquist, anyway?
-- George H. W. Bush -
Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.
-- George Santayana -
The circumstances of my life are paralyzing.
-- Georges Bataille -
If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.
-- Georges Braque -
Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it.
-- Germaine Greer -
It was certainly an accident, an accident caused by a series of circumstances and coincidences
-- Gianfranco Fini -
God allows circumstances to build us up. God has got our back.
-- Gloria Gaynor -
It is so important that you don't get distracted by what you are not. You need to start confessing your persona and living in it, and don't be bewildered by your circumstances. Just stay on course with what God is promising you.
-- Graham Cooke -
Your identity is being formed whether you understand it or not, whether you are cooperating or not. Something is being formed all the time, either through your response or your non-response. All your circumstances are to establish something. If you don't respond to them properly, then you establish something that you don't really want to be known for.
-- Graham Cooke -
I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance.
-- Grant Bowler -
We National Socialists are enemies, deadly enemies, of the present capitalist system with its exploitation of the economically weak … and we are resolved under all circumstances to destroy this system.
-- Gregor Strasser -
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 -
The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.
-- Helen Keller -
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
-- Herodotus -
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
-- Horace -
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
-- Horace Walpole
