Quotes about Circumstances
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because outside of God's shadow I was just a gaudy plastic float filled with stubborn air, drifting off like a blind Jonah in search of Plan B, manipulating circumstances and wondering why I kept waking up in my very own Tarshish.
— Ray Blackston
The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.
— James Allen
The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.
— Joseph Addison
Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
— Stephen Covey
Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.
— Joyce Meyer
He's taking the change well?" She asked.Except for getting a bit overtired. He's excited, but what 15-year-old wouldn't be under these circumstances?
— Frank Herbert
Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
— John Ortberg
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
— Denzel Washington
The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
— Oswald Chambers