Circumstances Quotes

Focus on your dream and do everything in your power. You have the power to change your life circumstances.

Stress is not caused by your busy life or challenging circumstances, it's simply the result of an imbalance between silence and activity.

The people at the NSA aren't trying to ruin your life. They're not trying to put you in authoritarian dystopia. These are normal people trying to do good work in hard circumstances.

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.

Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.

Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.

Chile needs Bolivian natural resources and Bolivia needs access to the sea. Under those circumstances, it must be possible to find a solution in the interest of both countries.

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

Lord, we claim your strength to serve you, no matter what our circumstances may be. Amen.

Worship God in the difficult circumstances, and when He chooses, He will alter them in two seconds.

Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.

Our focus must be on what we need to change about ourselves-our attitudes, our words, our actions-even if our circumstances and the other people in our lives remain the same.

God's grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me.

Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!

Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.

Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really. And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.

All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.

Be truthful, say what you mean and mean what you say, don't ignore the given circumstances.

I agree with God’s Word; I disagree with any condition, situation or circumstance contrary to that Word.

Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It's inside you - if you listen to it, you can play it.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances...street noises, loud talk, music, you name it.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

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.

The quality of a person's life does not depend on the circumstances of his life as much as the attitude with which he faces those circumstances.

You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.

In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul's prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances.

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Be clear about what you want to accomplish, and whether the circumstances surrounding you are actively helping you toward the goal.

Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.

The circumstances of my life are paralyzing.

Trusting God doesn't alter our circumstances. Perfect trust in Him changes us.

O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness

I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances

I look at myself as a product of my choices, not a victim of my circumstances.

The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.