Motivational Quotes

Circumstance

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. 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.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Circumstance

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You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise.

Newman, James

2.

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.

Andretti, Mario

3.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

Tan, Amy

4.

Upright whether in prosperous or in critical circumstances.

Motto

5.

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

6.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

Disraeli, Benjamin

7.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

London, Jack

8.

And as for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive. [Genesis 50:20]

Bible

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It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.

Robertson, Frederick W.

10.

You are where you are today because you've chosen to be there.

Browne, Harry

11.

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.

Covey, Stephen R.

12.

Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.

Fitzsimmons, Cotton

13.

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

Byron, Lord

14.

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Robbins, Anthony

15.

Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!

Lee, Bruce

16.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

Buscaglia, Leo

17.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. 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.

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

No person is either as happy or as unhappy as they imagine. Things are never as good or as bad as they seem.

19.

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.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

20.

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me.

Lummis, Charles F.

21.

How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.

Cousins, Parks

22.

We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

Howard, Vernon

23.

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!

Anderson, Greg

24.

The one who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it

25.

To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.

Keyes Jr., Ken

26.

Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

Livy, Titus

27.

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

Hume, David

28.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Allen, James

29.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Chan, Jackie

30.

Man is more powerful than matter.

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

Washington, Martha

32.

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

Seume, Johann G.

33.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

Lover, Samuel

34.

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

Nightingale, Earl

35.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

Woolf, Virginia

36.

Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

37.

It is a fact that you project what you are.

Peale, Norman Vincent

38.

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

James, William

39.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Russell, Bertrand

40.

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

Bovee, Christian Nevell