Quotes and Sayings About Circumstances
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When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.
-- A. B. SimpsonSource : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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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.
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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 -
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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
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You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.
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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
-- Adlai E. StevensonSource : "The World's Great Speeches" edited by Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, and Stephen J. McKenna, 1999.
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Faith believes in spite of the circumstances and acts in spite of the consequences.
-- Adrian Rogers -
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Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.
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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 RomigSource : Aleatha Romig (2011). “Consequences”, p.35, Romig Works LLC
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Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
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We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.
-- Allan MassieSource : Allan Massie (2010). “A Question Of Loyalties”, p.238, Canongate Books
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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.
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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 -
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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 GawandeSource : Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.143, Profile Books
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All children should be loved, protected, nurtured --emotionally and intellectually-- respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated.
-- Augusten BurroughsSource : Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.65, Vintage
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Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.
-- Augustus HareSource : "Guesses at Truth". Book by Augustus William Hare, 1827.
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God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.
-- Barbara Johnson -
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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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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. FerenczSource : "Crimes Against Humanity Benjamin Ferencz Interview". Interview with Katy Clark, ratical.org. September 19, 2001.
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We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
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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 HoffSource : "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.
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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 GrahamSource : Kay Arthur (2002). “Speak to My Heart, God: For Every Need, for Every Moment...”, p.18, Harvest House Publishers
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
-- Booker T. WashingtonSource : "Democracy and Education". Booker T. Washington's Speech at Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn NY, September 30, 1896.
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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