Quotes About Circumstances

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

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.

The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Our joy does not have to be based on our 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.

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.

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

People who contend with stressful situations regularly detect more opportunities of this nature than people who are living in pampered circumstances.

Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes.

One swallow never makes a summer.

understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.

It is the nature of the circumstances to disperse. If there is attachment with the circumstance, there will be abhorrence when they get dispersed.

When forces of nature are involved, fate gets all the blame.

He's taking the change well?" She asked.Except for getting a bit overtired. He's excited, but what 15-year-old wouldn't be under these circumstances?