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Quotes About Circumstances

Why don't they leave? Why do they stay to watch? And now I know. It's because you have no choice.
~ Suzanne Collins
Puedes echarles la culpa a las circunstancias, al entorno, pero las decisiones que tomaste las tomaste tú solo, sin ayuda de nadie. Ya sé que es mucho para asimilarlo todo de golpe. Sin embargo, es fundamental que hagas un esfuerzo por responder a esta pregunta: ¿quiénes somos los seres humanos? Porque quienes somos determina la clase de gobierno que necesitamos.
~ Suzanne Collins
Ceea ce oamenii de pe P?mânt numesc "Rai" ?i "Iad" sunt, de fapt, modurile în care ei abordeaz? situa?iile oriunde s-ar afla, cât ?i ceea ce manifest? fiecare individ ca circumstan?e ale vie?ii sale.
~ Suzanne Ward
Circumstances can never be good or bad. Only the individual man can be good or bad.
~ Swami Vivekananda
There is a certain inescapable attachment. If you are born somewhere and circumstances don't take you away from it, then you grow up and remain within it.
~ Graham Swift
Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.
~ Stephen Covey
I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.
~ Bram Fischer
Such things happen.
~ Robert Goolrick
Commitment is Circumstances
~ Leju Thomas
Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.
~ Celine Dion
Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world's failures.
~ Henry Ford
I'm a believer in luck and think the social conditions you're born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I've been lucky.
~ Sigmar Polke
The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.
~ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
He should have told us, too, that our brains become magnetised with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds. By means with which no one is familiar, these 'magnets' attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonise with the nature of our dominating thoughts.
~ Napoleon Hill
controlling, as much as possible, the environment in which you live and work?
~ Napoleon Hill
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
~ Napoleon Hill
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
~ Napoleon Hill
He should have told us, too, that our brains become magnetized with the dominating thoughts which we hold in our minds, and, by means with which no man is familiar, these "magnets" attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts
~ Napoleon Hill
If a steamship lost its rudder, in mid-ocean, and began circling around, it would soon exhaust its fuel supply without reaching shore, despite the fact that it would use up enough energy to carry it to shore and back several times.
~ Napoleon Hill
become magnetized with the dominating thoughts which we hold in our minds, and, by means with which no man is familiar, these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.
~ Napoleon Hill
Without money, one must take what one is offered, and be glad to get it.
~ Napoleon Hill
He should have told us, too, that our brains become magnetized with the dominating thoughts which we hold in our minds, and, by means with which no man is familiar, these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.
~ Napoleon Hill
Finally, I reckon that I am not immune to such an emotional defect. But I deal with it by having no access to information, except in rare circumstances. Again, I prefer to read poetry. If an event is important enough, it will find its way to my ears. I will return to this point in time.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Stoicism, seen this way, becomes pure robustness—for the attainment of a state of immunity from one's external circumstances, good or bad, and an absence of fragility to decisions made by fate, is robustness. Random events won't affect us either way (we are too strong to lose, and not greedy to enjoy the upside), so we stay in the middle column of the Triad.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb