CIRCUMSTANCE

Related Subjects: Chance, Destiny, Events, Fate, Fortune, Luck, Opportunity

1. Circumstance, that unspiritual god And miscreator, makes and helps along
   Our coming evils.—BYRON, Childe Harold
   

2. Man makes th circumstances, and spiritually as ell as economically is the artificer of his own fortune. . . . Man's circumstances are the element he is appointed to live and work in; . . . so that in another no less genuine sense, it can be said circumstances make the man.—CARLYLE, Diderot
   

3. Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.—DISRAELI, Vivian Grey
   

4. Tyrannical Circumstance!—EMERSON, Conduct of Life
   

5. One must follow circumstances, use the forces about us, do in a word what we find to do.—ANATOLE FRANCE
   

6. Circumstances alter cases.—T. C. HALIBURTON, The Old Judge
   

7. He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.—DAVID HUME
   

8. Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak, but they show what he is.—THOMAS A KEMPIS, Of the Imitation of Christ
   

9. Circumstances are things round about; we are in them, not under them.—W. S. LANDOR, Imaginary Conversations
   

10. Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.—SAMUEL LOVER
    

11. Circumstances! I make circumstances!—NAPOLEON
    

12. It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.—PLUTARCH, Lives

13. The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.—SCOTT, The Monastery
    

14. People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.—BERNARD SHAW, Mrs. Warren's Profession
    

15. Men are not altered by their circumstances but as they give them opportunities of exerting what they are in themselves and a powerful clown is a tyrant in the most ugly form in which he can possibly appear.—SIR RICHARD STEELE
    

16. Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.—TERENCE, Heauton Timoroumenos
    

17. A man is what the winds and tides have made him.—JIM TULLY
    

18. Circumstances over which I have no control.—DUKE OF WELLINGTON