Quotes About Circumstances

It's not the circumstances of life that are preventing you from being happy; it's the excuses you're making not to be happy.

There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstances of your life can change!

On two occasions, the person I had chosen as airplane captain came through as environmental leader in this second exercise. These exercises reinforced my belief that leadership indeed depends on the situation. As circumstances change, leadership must change. A certain set of skills, instincts, and personality traits may be perfect today, but useless tomorrow.

Exchanging the old boss for a new boss is not situational leadership. True situational leadership—flexible, effective, evolutionary—can only arise from self-management. And that means that situational leadership doesn't change fundamentally with circumstances. It is always about giving up control.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Whether you're heroic or heartless may depend on a contextual factor whose impact is far greater than we would tend to assume.

Behind many a successful person lies a string of lucky breaks that we have no inkling about.

Viktor Frankl concluded that in the last resort "everything can be taken from a man but one thing, the last of human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."4

The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards.

I couldn't tell you, Robert, what the higher ramifications are of being soul mates. I can tell you this however. As long as you are separated from your own, that long are you troubled. No matter what the circumstances, no matter how exquisite the environment in which you find yourself. To be half

a guest editorial decrying the town's mordant defeatism and criticizing the current Republican administration's unspoken policies, which could be summed up, he claimed, in nine words: No Spending. None. Ever. On Anything. Under Any Circumstances. Why not string one last banner across the street, he suggested: Let's Eat Dirt.

Maybe people with special gifts show up when bad things are happening because that's when they're needed most.

the best people have the rottenest luck

So don't be troubled by trouble. Circumstances cannot change the character of God. God's grace is still in full force; he is still for you, even when you don't feel it. In

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers, and no doubt this applies to certain of the recollections I have gathered here. 

Yes, I know you consider it a waste of time under the circumstances, but we have time to waste.

Is that…?" I nodded. I tried to explain, but the words wouldn't come. I handed him the paper. He finished reading it. "That's not…?" he murmured when he finished. "How…?" "Okay, what gives?" Corey said. "Personally, I wouldn't care if the U.S. declared war on Canada. Doesn't seem relevant under the circumstances.

I'm not disallowing the possibility that I could commit murder, under extreme circumstances. But falling into a honey trap? Unknowingly fathering a child? Absolutely not.

B?rbatul nu avea nici trecut, nici educaÈ›ie, nici familie, dar era inteligent È™i avea bani, iar în vremuri grele, chestiile astea valorau mai mult decât o educaÈ›ie bun?.

Grey quoted Gladstone, asking "whether, under the circumstances of the case, this country, endowed as it is with influence and power, would quietly stand by and witness the perpetration of the direst crime that ever stained the pages of history, and thus become participators in the sin?

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.

When we think we're at the mercy of our circumstances and past, we discount the power that is ours through the Holy Spirit.