Circumstances Quotes

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. (Confucius)
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. View quote
Bruce Lee
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. View quote
Robertson Davies
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. View quote
Viktor Frankl
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry. View quote
Norman Wisdom
Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts. View quote
Ruth Gordon
Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable. View quote
Daniel Webster
Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy. (Charles Krauthammer)
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave neither room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. View quote
George Boole
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him. View quote
James Allen
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. View quote
Edmund Burke
The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary. View quote
John Rawls
Man is the creature of circumstances. View quote
Robert Owen
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. View quote
Joseph Addison
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. View quote
B. F. Skinner
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think. (Lawrence Durrell)
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. View quote
Hugh Downs
Character, not circumstances, makes the man. View quote
Booker T. Washington
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The truth is not simply what you think it is it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said. View quote
Václav Havel