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

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.
Edmund Burke

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
Joseph Addison

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

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

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

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

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.
Virgil

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

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

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

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

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

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

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

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.
Barbara de Angelis