“ The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island. ”
- Malcolm Muggeridge- Copy
- 3K
“ In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 1K
“ Circumstances - what are circumstances? I make circumstances. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
- 104
“ Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 3.3K
“ He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances. ”
- David Hume- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
- 977
“ A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment. ”
- Harvey S. Firestone- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes. ”
- Klemens Von Metternich- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. ”
- Napoleon Hill- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. ”
- Samuel Lover- Copy
- 431
“ Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances. ”
- Titus Livy- Copy
- 3.9K
“ If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 2K
“ In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.3K
“ It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore. ”
- John Christian Bovee- Copy
- 1.8K
“ It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
- 1.1K
“ 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- Copy
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“ Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. ”
- James Allen- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 2.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 673
“ Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he. ”
- Johann G. Seume- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation. ”
- Marquis De Custine- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 1.8K
“ We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. ”
- Earl Nightingale- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you. ”
- Cotton Fitzsimmons- Copy
- 1.5K
“ You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done. ”
- Jack Youngblood- Copy
- 2.1K
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