Quotes About Circumstances

Once again, events beyond her control had dragged her into the middle of things. China was not impressed.

Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time situation.

The best leaders don't know just one style of leadership—they're skilled at several, and have the flexibility to switch between styles as the circumstances dictate.

To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.

Blame is especially useful in situations in which there is no apparent villain-those moments that prove, despite our advancement of learning, how susceptible we are to high winds and wet roads.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.

Life is 5% what happens, and 95% how you react.

Our life dictates a certain kind of wardrobe.

Ah well, I suppose it has come to this... Such is life.

Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation.

You feel that you cannot shape the course of events in your life. You feel trapped by circumstances or swept along by fate. Rather than an actor, you are a reactor. You feel there is little you can do to solve your problems.

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, to choose one's own way.

Systematic research supports the message of these cases. As noted in an article in the New York Times, "even in the most extreme circumstances—like the financial crisis—directors bore little consequence for their poor decisions.

The myth of self-employment is we go into business for ourselves thinking we're going to gain control over our destiny without realizing we are entering completely uncontrollable circumstances.

Daily habits that create steady mindsets are vital to be sure the uncontrollable circumstances of business and life don't derail you.

It wasn't that Mueller was unable to reach a conclusion about whether Trump committed a crime but that under the circumstances he chose not to do so. In other words, Quarles said, Mueller could reach a determination, but he would not.

The Trump campaign was disorganized in the best of circumstances, and its policy apparatus was an especially neglected corner. ("Policy" on the campaign

The Trump campaign was disorganized in the best of circumstances, and its policy apparatus was an especially neglected corner. ("Policy" on the campaign was whatever Trump happened to say on any given day.)

When people fail you - and they will - Jesus is ever faithful. When circumstances tank - and they will - Jesus will hold you fast. He is the most trustworthy, dependable Savior, and you will never be alone. This gives me such comfort, because as imperfect parents who failed often, we are terrified to send you out knowing we didn't do enough. But Jesus is enough for all of us. He is enough for you. No one is safer. No one loves you more. No one will lead you better.

Blackmailers are never satisfied." His laughter faded into bitterness. "Aren't they? How do you know?" His words were empty, hollow. "When you're the brother of a duke and your wife died in mysterious circumstances, sharks come out of the woodwork." "That's a mixed metaphor." "Bugger metaphors. They're human sharks and they come out of the shadows when you least expect them.