Quotes About Circumstances

I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.

We cannot choose our families or our class sums. But we can choose our own futures." He spoke very slowly and clearly. "No, you are not a leader, but you are still an 'educable child.' You can overcome your family background." He

When I looked around me, fate seemed to be the only explanation for what was happening.

Charlie says that "God gives us a choice when we face difficult circumstances."3 We can choose misery or "we can choose to face our trials with God's help, knowing that we'll come out the other side as stronger people for the experience."4

Don't let less-than-perfect circumstances keep you from trusting God.

The more we take responsibility for the energy we bring to the world, the more empowered and productive we become. The more we blame others or external circumstances, the more negative and compromised our energy is likely to be.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.

We do not see our hand in what happens, and so we call certain events melancholy accidents… —Stanley Cavell

Stress is essential to leadership. Living with stress, knowing how to handle pressure, is necessary for survival. It is related to man's ability to wrest control of his own destiny from the circumstances that surround him or, if you like, to prevail over technology.

the heart of the difference is that many white Americans tend to see unfortunate incidents based on individual circumstances, while most black Americans see systems in which their black lives matter less than white lives.

Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past.

Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.

Tem coisas que não são de ruindade em si, mas danam, porque é ao caso de virarem, feito o que não é feito.

But it's possible to be wry and somewhat skeptical about the tedious, expensive process of saint-making without losing sight of the person at the center. Without saints, sanctity might be considered only as an abstraction. Saints help us see how a spiritual life can be lived in many different ways and under many different social and historical circumstances.

if it was your fault, then you weren't powerless--you weren't at the mercy of stuff just happening." "Your always going to be at thee mercy of stuff just happening, no matter what.

All night he either traversed his apartment with an agitation equal to that, which anxiety had so lately inflicted, or composed and destroyed letters to Ellena; sometimes fearing that he had written too much, and at others feeling that he had written too little; recollecting circumstances which he ought to have mentioned, and lamenting the cold expression of a passion, to which it appeared that no language could do justice.

She wanted to complain, not to be consoled; and it was by exclamations of complaint only, Emily learned the particular circumstances of her affliction

I didn't want this kind of death, The time-frame that I chose was different.

You have got to play the game with the cards that have been dealt to you, and it is of no use for you to bewail your fate because you don't hold different ones. Look them over, arrange them, and play. You certainly must play them before you will get any others, and you need never expect to have other people's cards.

He sees her looking at him with interest, and is encouraged to go on. 'I wouldn't be here with you now. This wouldn't be real - something else would. You'd have been another you, instead of the one you are now. You can't be tied down to a predestined fate when you change according to your situation, and your fate must change too. Everything depends on circumstances - on which "you" you happen to be at a given time...

The mentality of a refugee, forcibly expelled from his home, is not that of an emigrant who leaves to seek his fortune: his very circumstances fostered dependency and a sense of helplessness he might never have known before. To

You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.

Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result

The key to thankfulness is not to view God through the lens of our circumstances, but to view our circumstances through the lens of God's love and sovereign purpose.