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Quotes About Circumstance

Every circumstance is an opportunity to re-define your confident level.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
~ Epictetus
We turn, three men bound by love, by history, by circumstance, and most certainly by the awful grace of God, and together walk a narrow lane where headstones press close all around, reminding me gently of Warren Redstone's parting wisdom, which I understand now. The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.
~ William Kent Krueger
A person can't help their birth.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Every Victim requires a Persecutor. But the Persecutor isnt always necessarily a person. The Persecutor could also be a condition or a circumstance. A persecuting condition might be a disease or a heart attack, or an injury. A persecuting circumstance could be a natural disaster, like a hurricane or an earthquake or a house burning down.
~ David Emerald
Perhaps," he continued, "this capacity for evil is in all of us, then, and it's largely down to fortune whether we encounter the circumstance that breathes life into it or not. Just as it's luck that determines when or if that faulty gene breaks and gives you cancer or Marfan or the physique of an Olympian.
~ David Hewson
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.
~ David Hume
So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere ...
~ David Lindsay-Abaire
Open your heart and invite God into every circumstance because when God enters the scene, miracles happen.
~ Victoria Osteen
Too often we try to use God to change our circumstance, when God is trying to use our circumstance to change us.
~ Nicky Gumbel
You need to return to the truth of God's Word that will last forever, not meditate on circumstance that will fade and change. It is this truth that enables us to go into the future undaunted.
~ Christine Caine
Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.
~ Katie Davis
There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
~ Timothy Keller
So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god-all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.
~ Oswald Chambers
Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.
~ Ovid
You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.
~ Winston Churchill
Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The choice to have a great attitude is something that nobody or no circumstance can take from you.
~ Zig Ziglar
Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you think about it for a moment, destiny is not a synonym of circumstance.
~ Unarine Ramaru
If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.
~ Herbert Butterfield
They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]
~ Juvenal
Honor doesn't revise according to company just as integrity doesn't diminish due to circumstance.
~ Donna Lynn Hope