Quotes with circumstance

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.