Quotes tagged ‘Circumstances’

“You can choose to blame your circumstances on fate or bad luck or bad choices. Or you can fight back. Things aren't always going to be fair in the real world. That's just the way it is. But for the most part, you get what you give. Rest of your life is being shaped right now. With the dreams you cha…”

— Mark Schwahn, Haley James Scott, Bethany Joy Lenz, imdb.com

“A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.”

— Frederick Douglass, amazon.com

“Look upon this advice in the friendly way it is meant, as I wish you to be a independent as your circumstances will admit and to be so, is to exert yourself in the management of your estate. If you do not no one else will.”

— Martha Washington, amazon.com

“The takeaway is simply this: We are inclined to assume that circumstances play the biggest role in our happiness, when research suggests they play the smallest role.”

— Adam Sternbergh, thecut.com

“We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift that at times gets pushed into neutral. When that happens, morality is disengaged. If the car happens to be on an incline, car and driver move precipitously downhill. It is then…”

— Philip Zimbardo, goodreads.com

“Fortunate circumstances must concur, even to the greatest, to render them eminently successful. It is not permitted to all to be born, like Archimedes, when a science was to be created; nor, like Newton, to find the system of the world "without form and void;" and, by disclosing gravitation, to shed…”

— Charles Babbage, amazon.com

“Until it happens to you, you won’t know how it feels.”

— Lady GaGa, open.spotify.com

“It is a frightening thought, that in one fraction of a moment you can fall in the kind of love that takes a lifetime to get over.”

— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com

“I feel that a lot, actually, in lot of circumstances. Like I ought to be feeling something I don’t.”

— Marina Keegan, amazon.com

“Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.”

— Lisa Kleypas, amazon.com

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

— Stephen R Covey, goodreads.com

“People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible.”

— Sonia Sotomayor, amazon.com

“I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.”

— Simon Van Booy, amazon.com

“I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstances and chance.”

— Brandon Boyd, amazon.com

“I feel that a lot, actually, in lot of circumstances. Like I ought to be feeling something I don’t.”

— Marina Keegan, amazon.com

“The severity of my OCD ebbs and flows depending on the circumstances surrounding me.”

— Cat Aleman, thoughtcatalog.com

“People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“The minute you start falling victim to your circumstances is the minute you let the world dictate how high you can climb on this mountain of life.”

— Gloria Atanmo, gumroad.com