Circumstances Quotes - Page 25

• Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort and defeat without collapsing or complaining. He/she knows he cannot have everything his/her own way every time. He/she is able to defer to circumstances, to other people-and to time. He/she knows when to compromise and is not too proud to do so.

  Ann Landers

  Maturity, Frustration, Mature Person

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• Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew.

  Jewel

  Kids, Home, Thinking

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• There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Girl, Children, War

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• Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle at which the least manoeuvre is decisive and gives superiority, as one drop of water causes overflow.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Issues, Giving

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• Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Men, May, He Man

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.108, Booklassic

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• The longer I live the more I am convinced that neither age nor circumstance needs to deprive us of energy and vitality. We are at last awakening to the close relationship between religion and health. . . .our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Emotional, Age, Awakening

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• They are inherently good - the bad reactions aren't basic. Every human being is a child of God and has more good in him than evil - but circumstances and associates can step up the bad and reduce the good. I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Children, Evil, May

  Modern Maturity magazine Interview, December-January 1975-76.

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• Suppose you found your brother in bed with your wife, and put a javelin through both of them. You would be justified, and they would atone for their sins, and be received into the Kingdom of God. I would at once do so, in such a case; and under the circumstances, I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.... There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their God, that will not be required to pay the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own blood must atone for it.

  Brigham Young

  Brother, Heart, Men

  Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.247

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• A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Time, Real, War

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• There are no circumstances in your life where God will not stand will not stand with you and help you, no matter what the trouble may be.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Religion, May, Matter

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• Comparison with something that is better is the thief of joy. Comparison with something that is worse is a joy - full of relief and gratitude! You cannot always choose what happens to you or your circumstances but you can always choose your attitude by what you choose to compare your experiences or circumstances to and therefore how you will feel!! We can make any experience either a heaven or a hell by what we compare it to. Our emotions are 'an inside job!'

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Gratitude, Jobs, Attitude

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• Living faith is above circumstances; no delays can discourage it, no loss of friends or depression in trade can touch it.

  Rees Howells

  Loss, Delay, Discouraging

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• You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Australia, Never Trust

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.410, Rowman & Littlefield

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• No matter what your circumstances are, whether you are in prosperity or in adversity, you can learn from every person, transaction, and circumstance around you.

  Brigham Young

  Inspiring, Education, Adversity

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• The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Events, He Man

  "Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts" collected and published by Cte. A. G. de Liancourt; edited by James Alexander Manning, (p. 146), 1848.

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• The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Law

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted sense of liberation. It was not the Negro who became free, but I.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Long, Soul, Lasts

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• How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him. . . .

  George Eliot

  Men, Decision, Age

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• In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Order, Moral, Argument

  Nathanael Emmons (1842). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D.: With a Memoir of His Life [written by Himself]”, p.496

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• Although we can't control which roles are assigned to us, it must be our business to act our given role as best we possibly can and to refrain from complaining about it. Where ever you find yourself and in whatever circumstances, give an impeccable performance.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Giving, Finding Yourself

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• I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wish, Would Be, I Can

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.250, Graphic Arts Books

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• Following dharma puts you in a proper field of attention. In a proper field of attention, regardless of what your outer circumstances are, happiness will flow.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Fields, Attention

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• The art of spirituality is learning to be happy in any condition and in any circumstance. This is the art of love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Yoga, Spirituality

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• Live your life with a smile regardless the circumstances.

  Josh Thomson

  Ufc, Mma, Live Your Life

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• Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceives neither novelty nor beauty, [the scientist and natural philosopher] walks in the midst of wonders.

  John Herschel

  Eye, Thinking, Law

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