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Quotes About Circumstances

Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict.
~ Tom Clancy
You can't always control the circumstances - only how you react to those circumstances; you can always control your attitude and your effort.
~ Jennie Finch
It's not your circumstances that make or break your day. It's your attitude!
~ Evangeline Lilly
You are in charge of your own attitude whatever others do or circumstances you face. The only person you can control is yourself...worry more about your attitude than your aptitude or lineage.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
Our circumstances will continually change. It is out of our control. It is more important to change our attitude, which we have control of.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
We might not be able to change our circumstances, but we CAN change our attitude.
~ Beth Moore
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people you think about most!
~ Napoleon Hill
No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in!
~ Neal A. Maxwell
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
~ William James
Every day, good stuff and bad stuff happens to us. It's what you do about it and how you handle it that matters.
~ Danielle Steel
Every day, good stuff and bad stuff happens to us. It's what
~ Danielle Steel
Something made them the way they are. Things do happen for a reason.
~ Dave Pelzer
Think carefully about where and when and under what circumstances you can do which actions, and organize your lists accordingly.
~ David Allen
Farming was a risky proposition under even the best of circumstances. Folks who toiled in the dirt could do everything right and a drought or an early freeze could come and wipe them out.
~ David Baldacci
Since there was absolutely nothing he could do about his circumstances, chewing on them would only leave a sour taste in his mouth.
~ David Eddings
Aside from the unusual circumstances in which agents exhibit principal-like behavior, investors face the challenge of dealing with an adversarial agent who profits at the investor's expense.
~ David F. Swensen
And by these wonderful circumstances I was once more free again: and I kept my resolution then made, never to fall more into the hands of any recruiter, and henceforth and for ever to be a gentleman.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
I do believe, induced by potent circumstances That thou art mine enemy.
~ William Shakespeare
There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and miseries. Upon such tide are we now...
~ William Shakespeare
There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.
~ William Shakespeare
But by bad courses may be understood that their events can never fall out good.
~ William Shakespeare
The most futile thing a man can do is to ponder the alternatives, to stew and fret over the life that might have been lived if circumstances had not pointed his future in a certain direction.
~ William Styron