Circumstances Quotes - Page 7

• Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

  James Lane Allen

  Men, Determine

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• Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Inspirational, Regret, Self Esteem

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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• Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Motivation, Procrastination, Waiting

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• What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?

  Theodore Roethke

  Positive, Positivity, Odds

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.341, Anchor

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• Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

  Johann Gottfried Seume

  Men, Gambling, Tears

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• Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

  Bruce Sterling

  Home, Ignorance, Literature

  "Big Brother and the Next 50 years". Interview with Declan McCullagh, www.cnet.com. June 05, 2003.

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• I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause." Just a few moments of pausing allows me to consider a circumstance and take stock of what the best direction might be. Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action. A Response is considered and thoughtful. My actions are my own and I am, singularly, responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Thoughtful, Might, Pausing

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• In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses, a telescope and a microscope. And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance through the tender hearts of my friends.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Friends, Heart, New Relationship

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• The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.

  Publilius Syrus

  Seems

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

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• To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

  David Hume

  Happiness, Suits, Excellent

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  I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “An Effective Life: Inspirational Philosophy from Dr. Covey’s Life”, p.88, FranklinCovey Co.

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• An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

  Views, Understanding, Alliances

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• There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.

  Dennis Prager

  People, Littles, Correlation

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

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• We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.

  Pema Chodron

  Choices, Scare, Resentful

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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• Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Positive, Powerful, Men

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• A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Scouting, Cub Scout, Scoutmasters

  Robert Baden-Powell (1918). “Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship”, p.45, Cedar Fort

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• Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

  Samuel Butler

  People, Dying, Aging

  Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.28, Samuel Butler

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• As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.

  James Hillman

  Parent, Soul, Body

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• Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Life, Motivational, Leadership

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• In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.

  Seth Lloyd

  Order, Atoms, Information

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• I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

  Bram Fischer

  Engagement, Duty, Dangerous

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• He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.

  James Stockdale

  Leadership, Air, Vietnam

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• Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Intelligent, Power, Hypnosis

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