The only reason we stress is something is happening that we decided should not be happening. It is not the circumstance that is the problem. It is our resistance to it.
The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.
Success is more a matter of choice than of circumstance.
You have been gifted with mental faculties to improve any circumstance around you.
We do not have to be victims of circumstance.
Successful people decide how they are going to live; they are not victims of circumstance. In good times or bad times, they know where they are going and they know that they are going to get there.
You must not only have competitiveness but ability, regardless of the circumstance you face, to never quit
It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument in its favor? If one would be employed or amused through life, should we not make choice of a passion that will keep one long in play?
Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
If you grew up in a lower-income community, or less well-off, the belief is that the way to change that circumstance is through education.
How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.
Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.
Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.
It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. . . . My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life today. ' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now.
There is a lot to look at when you are serious about transformation. You look at everything you've ever done, every circumstance you've ever been in, cleaning up everything in your past. Reconciling, forgiving others, forgiving yourself. It's a lot of work, actually.
Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.
I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and justify my position by formulating a definition of MAGICK and setting forth its main principles in such a way that ALL may understand instantly that their souls, their lives, in every relation with every other human being and every circumstance, depend upon MAGICK and the right comprehension and right application thereof.
You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.
It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.
Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself.