Circumstances Quotes - Page 4

• A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

  Hugh Downs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• As Shantideva says, suffering has many good qualities because it purifies our negative karma, increases our renunciation and compassion, reduces our pride, and helps us to overcome our bad mental habits. If we think in this way we will feel that difficult circumstances are our best friends. When our mind is balanced in this way it becomes as stable as Mount Meru, and nothing can cause it to shake.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Friends, Karma, Pride

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• People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.

  Anthony Powell

  Thinking, People, Biographies

  Anthony Powell (2010). “Hearing Secret Harmonies: Book 12 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.84, University of Chicago Press

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• I am I plus my circumstances.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Plus

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• Happiness is always a choice. You can't wait for circumstances to get better. You have to create your own good fortune. So look for ways to be happy every day.

  Joel Osteen

  Positive Thinking, Positivity, Choices

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• Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

  Edmund Burke

  Lying, Justice, Abortion

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.230

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• Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

  Iris Chang

  People, Evil, Would Be

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• It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration, Passion, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Men, Tests, Nations

  "The World's Great Speeches" edited by Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, and Stephen J. McKenna, 1999.

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• In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

  Amy Tan

  America, Giving, Joy Luck Club

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.254, Penguin

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• No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Life, Courage, Love Yourself

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• The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

  Seneca the Younger

  Courage, Powerful, Adversity

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.

  Andre Gide

  Believe, Able, Courses

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.286, Routledge

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Influence, Relation, Determine

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• Circumstances do not determine state of being; state of being determines circumstances.

  Darryl Anka

  States, Determine

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• Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Success, Time, Philosophical

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• Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Men

  James Allen (2016). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.6, Xist Publishing

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

  Horace

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

  Mira Sorvino

  Character, People, Giving

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• I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

  Milton Friedman

  Cutting, Liberty, Taxation

  "Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause". Book by Richard A. Viguerie, 2006.

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• People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can, but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do.

  Jeb Bush

  Heart, People, Titles

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• The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

  Kate Millett

  Happiness, True Love, Mean

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.37, Columbia University Press

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• I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

  Sidney Poitier

  Moving, People, Black

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• McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.

  Pat Robertson

  Vote, Mccain

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• Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Regret, Self, Agreement

  "The Four Agreements". Book by Don Miguel Ruiz, 1997.

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