Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old circumstances quotes, circumstances sayings, and circumstances proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.Benjamin Disraeli
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.Samuel Lover
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The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.Mariella Frostrup
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.Edmund Burke
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Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy.Thomas Jefferson
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You can blame circumstances, but backsliding always begins in the heart.Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Your character should always be stronger than your circumstances.Dave Willis
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Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.Mario Andretti
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Circumstances do not determine state of being; state of being determines circumstances.Darryl Anka
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There's no doubt that relationships do suffer when circumstances change profoundly.Marian Keyes
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Bad circumstances have a way of ruining things that would otherwise be pleasant.Daniel Handler
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Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.Henry David Thoreau
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The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.John Marshall
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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
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Circumstances are the seeds of literature.Salvador De Madariaga
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.Christian N. Bovee
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If you are not consciously directing your life, you will lose your footing and circumstances will decide for you.Michael Beckwith
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Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.James Lane Allen
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.Cameron Mackintosh
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It is difficult to think of any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to it. You have become bound to it.Frederick Lenz
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A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.
Joyce Meyer
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To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.William Kingdon Clifford
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In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.Leo Tolstoy
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Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.Jackie Chan
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.Benjamin Disraeli
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One does not plan and then try to make circumstances fit the plans. One tries to make plans fit the circumstances.George S. Patton
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The range of circumstances in which it is possible to presuppose the presence of a combination is very limited. The presence of such circumstances is the reason for the genesis of the idea in the master's brain.Emanuel Lasker
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The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.Publilius Syrus
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The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.Marquis de Custine
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Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with.Steve Lacy
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You can't let your current circumstances dictate what kind of choices you make.Kelly Clark
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You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.Oprah Winfrey
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Don't allow circumstance to hold you back- even negative ones. You don't have to let your circumstances define you. You can define yourself, and the best way to find yourself is through education.Mary Hatwood Futrell
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Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult, have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains.Alan Redpath
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Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.Nido Qubein
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To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is all we need.Rainer Maria Rilke
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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.Rabbi Harold Kushner
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Circumstances in the world of politics contribute substantially to whether or not you can be successful.Willie Brown
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Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen.Charlton Ogburn
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.Henry James
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Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.Margaret J. Wheatley
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Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.Dan Miller
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.Earl Nightingale
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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.Martha Washington
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.”G.K. Chesterton
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Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance.Steve Maraboli
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Worry is most often a prideful way of thinking that you have more control over life and its circumstances than you actually do.June Hunt
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Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.Criss Jami
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.B. F. Skinner
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There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.William Halsey
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To become mindfully aware of our surroundings is to bring our thinking back to our present moment reality and to the possibility of some semblance of serenity in the face of circumstances outside our ability to control.Jeff Kober
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The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.Marianne Williamson
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Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.Dave Barry
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.Herodotus
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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.Orison Swett Marden
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My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.Denzel Washington
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There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.Jason Silva
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Man is the creature of circumstances.Robert Owen
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True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.John C. Calhoun
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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
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Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.J. Donald Walters
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. Viktor E. Frankl
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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
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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
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.Aristotle
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Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.Alfred North Whitehead
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Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility. Anne M. Mulcahy
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It's not your circumstances that shape you, it's how you react to your circumstances. Anne Ortlund
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We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance. Benjamin Disraeli
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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 Graham
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Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of the fire. Happiness is something we are. John B. Sheerin
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The circumstances we ask God to change are often the circumstances God is using to change us.Max Lucado
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Joy is not dependent on circumstances; it is your own. It is not a titillation produced by things; it is a state of peace, of silence-a meditative state. It is spiritual.Osho
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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. We always have the choice. Dalai Lama