Quotes About Circumstances

they would have made me a ward of the state.

Don't you think, dear, that as these girls are used to such things, and the best we can do will be nothing new, that some simpler plan would be pleasanter to them, as a change if nothing more, and much better for us than buying or borrowing what we don't need, and attempting a style not in keeping with our circumstances?

I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions and not upon our circumstances.

For in Japan the constant goal is honor. It is necessary to command respect. The means one uses to that end are tools one takes up and then lays aside as circumstances dictate.

It is the situation, the circumstances, the context, that decide whether we see a person as enemy or as partner at any given moment. The Other can be both of these, and that is the basis of his changeable, elusive nature, his contradictory behaviour, whose motives he himself is sometimes incapable of understanding.

Everything depends upon how one is placed.

Some people are content in the midst of deprivation and danger, while others are miserable despite having all the luck in the world. This is not to say that external circumstances do not matter. But it is your mind, rather than circumstances themselves, that determines the quality of your life. Your mind is the basis of everything you experience and of every contribution you make to the lives of others. Given this fact, it makes sense to train it.

This is not to say that external circumstances do not matter. But it is your mind, rather than circumstances themselves, that determines the quality of your life. Your mind is the basis of everything you experience

In those circumstances where we deem it obviously necessary to lie, we have generally determined that the person to be deceived is both dangerous and unreachable by any recourse to the truth. In other words, we have judged the prospects of establishing a genuine relationship with him to be nonexistent.

But it is your mind, rather than circumstances themselves, that determines the quality of your life.

You can't always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.

Pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed

Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions.

Ultimately the way to win the game of life, is found in only one thing: Our ability to choose meaning in any life circumstance. Become the master of meaning and you master your life.

We have absolutely no control over what happens to us in life but what we have paramount control over is how we respond to those events.

Stress comes from within; it is your reaction to circumstances, not the circumstances themselves.

Stress is not caused by your busy life or challenging circumstances, it's simply the result of an imbalance between silence and activity.

An hour of anxiety cannot change my circumstances, but a minute of prayer can alter everything.

The source of our stress isn't really difficulties, circumstances and situations-it's our attitude and approach toward them.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where the passions are ready to receive it.