Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.
Margaret J. Wheatley

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Bertrand Russell

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Martha Washington

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
Martha Washington

When the circumstances are right, everything becomes a dance.
Lynette Fromme

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
Jackie Chan

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Benjamin Disraeli

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
Benjamin Disraeli

Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.
Sonia Sotomayor

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
Leon Trotsky

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.
Robert Baden-Powell

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
Daniel Webster

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.
Muhammad Yunus

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.
Virgil

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

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.
Thomas J. Watson

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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.
Omar N. Bradley

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.
Mario Andretti