Quotes About Circumstances

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
― Martha Washington

“Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.”
― Aaron Ben-Zeév

“Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want. You have the power and the time to shape your life. Break free from the poisonous victim mentality and embrace the truth of your greatness. You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!”
― Steve Maraboli

“Expect the best, prepare for the worst.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.”
― Martha Washington

“Worry is most often a prideful way of thinking that you have more control over life and its circumstances than you actually do.”
― June Hunt

“She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Do not dilute the truth of your potential. We often convince ourselves that we cannot change, that we cannot overcome the circumstances of our lives. That is simply not true. You have been blessed with immeasurable power to make positive changes in your life. But you can't just wish it, you can't just hope it, you can't just want it... you have to LIVE it, BE it, DO it.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Stop blaming outside circumstances for your inside chaos.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“There is no easy way out of our circumstances...Sometimes you stick it out even when you want to give up because you know that on the other side is either a better situation or a better you." -Watercrossing (Phantom Island Book 3)”
― Krissi Dallas

“IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES.”
― Nadia Sahari, Breakaway: How I Survived Abuse

“And even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.”
― Frank Beddor, Seeing Redd

“It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.”
― Rachel Corrie

“Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted.”
― Criss Jami

“People do not have the power to change situations, situations have the power to change people though.”
― Ram Mohan

“Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“Circumstances shouldn't always set your happiness, sometimes you have to look within your heart. Love Conquers All.”
― M.J. Abraham, Happenstance

“Commitment is Circumstances”
― Leju Thomas

“Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked.

Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.”
― George Packer

“[Christ] has accomplished your salvation. But He has not yet perfected your circumstances. Do not be confused in the two.”
― Kristen Heitzmann, Sweet Boundless

“The fact that my circumstances had changed drastically but my behavior hadn't was beginning to wear on me.”
― Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

“Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.”
― W.C. Fields

“A trip to the cancer unit of any pediatric hospital will tell you that the Law of Attraction doesn't work and neither does faith. Some angels are so bright, brave and valiant that God gave them the hardest lives when they chose to come to earth. They don't need to pray to be saved because they already are.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Everybody has choices, Mother. The poorest girl alive may not be able to choose between being Queen of England or Principal of Newnham; but she can choose between rag-picking and flower-selling, according to her taste. People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession

“Circumstances don't determine who you are, or what you will be. Only you do that. You either decide, or you don't. Even the decision not to decide was still yours.”
― Julie-Anne

“Just say it: I'm angry and no one will like me. God: No, I will not say that. But don't you think we ached for you to find a love you could share your whole life with? I used your teachers to encourage you creatively when the church could not... I worked with whatever I got my hands on. Can you see that?”
― Susan E. Isaacs, Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir

“The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit.”
― Renae Jones, Perfect Wisdom