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Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities; they will never come. (Quote by - Janet Erskine Stuart)

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not our circumstances. (Quote by - Martha Washington)

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live. (Quote by - Omar N. Bradley)

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)

Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are. (Quote by - John B. Sheerin)

He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright. (Quote by - Plutarch)

I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort. (Quote by - Elizabeth T. King)

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs. (Quote by - Mario Andretti)

All animals, except man, know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. (Quote by - Milton Friedman)

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)

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. (Quote by - Stephen R. Covey)

I am motivated simply by my awareness of the impact today's actions have on tomorrow's circumstances. (Quote by - Chase Streetman)

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances. (Quote by - Christopher Dodd)

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. (Quote by - Jean-Paul Sartre)

Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning. (Quote by - Barbara De Angelis)

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you. (Quote by - Amy Tan)

Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen. (Quote by - Charlton Ogburn)

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. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves. (Quote by - Karl Marx)

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. (Quote by - Henry James)

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