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

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

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
Samuel Butler

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.
Nicholas Sparks

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

I am I plus my circumstances.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.
Tony Blair

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.
Tony Blair

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.
Simone Weil

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Charles de Montesquieu

There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.
Charles Babbage

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett Marden

Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.
Daniel Boone

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.
James Lane Allen

This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about protection of tribal assets.
Jack Abramoff

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

They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences.
Peter Singer

They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.
Billie Jean King

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
Herodotus

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
Herodotus