Circumstances Quotes - Page 8

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

Villains are mostly just people villainized by circumstance

When circumstances don't fit our ideas they become our difficulties

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

Circumstances don't create character. They reveal character.

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

I feel I`ve always been on the outside and always on the edge of an abyss. The women I portray, and the woman I am, are ordinary but maybe find themselves in extra-ordinary circumstances, and what they do is at great cost.

Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.

Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with.

It's the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you'll always succeed.

In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances.

McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.

For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.

You can think your way into or out of almost any circumstance, good or bad.

As a rule it is circumstances that make men.

If you grew up in a lower-income community, or less well-off, the belief is that the way to change that circumstance is through education.

True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.

We can't always fix our circumstances, but we can fix our minds on God

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

There's a way out of every situation.

Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.