Best Circumstances Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“It's getting increasingly difficult to be a dreamer under any circumstances.”

“A lot of people feel left out by a government that taxes too much and regulates them too heavily and seems to result in a set of circumstances where economic and political incumbents benefit at everybody else's expense.”

“For me, it's more powerful to hear people sing about God than love in most circumstances because I've been hearing people sing about love for most of my life.”

“I was the original little guy. This country gave me an opportunity. I want our tax system to do the same for others facing those same circumstances.”

“I saw experimental film-makers teaching in college. They did what they wanted and didn't worry about the market, but the circumstances ended up offering me other possibilities.”

“I'm a bit of a hothead in certain circumstances, but you've got to temper it because your fans are there, and they've paid good money to see a show.”

“Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.”

“When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.”

“Under no circumstances will I allow the Fianna Fail party back into government. They wrecked the economy twice.”

“We all wake up, and I'm sure at some point during the day we all have very similar thoughts regardless of our circumstances and where we are in the world.”

“A president can start a war under relatively specious circumstances, and once American soldiers are under fire, Americans will support the soldiers and support the president.”

“Each season was different and presented its own set of circumstances and challenges.”

“My mother and stepfather were in Vaudeville. And my stepfather was an alcoholic. It was a lot of roller coaster times. But it's all I knew. I think they did the best they could under the circumstances, with me and all the family.”

“If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a landlord to evict a tenant who falls behind under those circumstances, eviction becomes an inevitability.”

“Under no circumstances am I going to criticize my family in public.”

“Even if Koch Industries had a financial interest in the Keystone XL pipeline, what possibly could be wrong with that? Perhaps more important, under what circumstances would such an interest be worthy of a congressional inquisition?”

“I've seen the human condition under the most trying of circumstances.”

“I was lucky enough to be exposed to film, art, literature, culture, and then told, 'Yes, you can do that, too.' It's not something that everybody's circumstances allow for.”

“Nobody starts out evil - we know that. It's life circumstances that lead them to that.”

“I worked on minimum wage; I didn't go to college out of school. I worked multiple jobs, and it's probably not something Sen. Hagan's not had to worry about because we grew up in very different life circumstances.”

“It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers.”

“You could have names like Hatred; you could have names that mean something like Suffering or Poverty. So names are not just names: names have real meaning, and they tend to tell the world about the circumstances of your parents at the time that you were born.”

“As a former member of the IRA, I accept all the responsibilities that are due to me. But in terms of the individual circumstances, I don't comment on that.”

“The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.”

“My father had always dreamed of getting a Ph.D., but certain life circumstances prevented him from following through. It was a tremendous, deep regret. The day I got my Ph.D., I saw in my father's face what it meant that I had done this.”

“Having a parent live with you under the best of circumstances can be a terrible stressor.”

“Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.”

“I always gravitate towards anything from Ireland. With Irish lit, I love the use of language, but also in many instances, the Irish writers are writing about people and circumstances that I can relate to.”

“Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.”

“It is not good thinking - either at the corporate level or at the personal level - to believe you can simply walk away from your circumstances.”

“I always think any circumstances can be funny. Not that I'm irresponsible, but when things go wrong, I always come up with a joke or think of something funny to say.”

“There seems to be a theme running through the women I play. They take their circumstances and try to make the best of them.”

“It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.”

“It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.”

“My sister-in-law works for a group that supports orphanages in Cairo. She and her colleagues take care of children left behind by circumstances beyond their control. They feed these children, clothe them, and teach them to read.”

“I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.”

“Every film has an origin. It is made under certain circumstances, and that is a very important point that should be kept in mind during a review.”

“I've always found that acting has been quite a hard thing to pre-manage because so much of it is spontaneous and the circumstances so uncontrolled.”

“It is a remarkable fact in the political history of man that there is scarcely an instance of a free constitutional government which has been the work exclusively of foresight and wisdom. They have all been the result of a fortunate combination of circumstances.”

“When you have a child, you think about your personal history and what you offer them as a larger narrative, and I realised I knew nothing about my father's circumstances other than what he'd told me.”

“You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.”

“The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.”

“Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so you are tearing into as many as you can.”

“I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.”

“All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.”

“Really, I'm never much of a goal-setter. Whenever I've tried to make big, solid plans, they don't happen. I'm more into whatever the circumstances are that present themselves, making wise decisions around that.”

“Throughout your life, you've been influenced by what you have done in the past, what you have been told you can and cannot do, and what your present circumstances seem to dictate.”

“I want to learn. I want to stretch my muscles as a director and work under different circumstances.”

“We are people in circumstances who make choices that we think are right at the time.”

“I don't like the idea of playing a one-dimensional character who is just fearless, strong, and killer and has instincts and just thrives in dangerous circumstances - that's really boring to me, and I don't think it represents what most women feel inside.”

“When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.”

“People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.”

“Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.”

“When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.”

“It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.”

“My grandmother's generation and generations before always saw beyond the horizons of their own lives and their own circumstances. They believed that opportunity created today would lead to prosperity tomorrow.”

“We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.”

“And Clinton was like that - he saw the whole playing field. He didn't just see the event that he was at or the circumstances of that week or that month. He saw the whole playing field all the time.”

“We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work.”

“Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.”

“I have lots of hopes for black actors in general, whether they be on TV or on stage or in movies, and that is that we move beyond the tokenism of what it means to be black in a particular set of circumstances.”

“The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.”

“If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.”

“I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.”

“God allows circumstances to build us up. God has got our back.”

“The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.”

“Nobody likes a bad sport, no matter what the circumstances are.”

“I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.”

“How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history; they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together.”

“When the circumstances are right, everything becomes a dance.”

“I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.”

“The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.”

“Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.”

“When you can't change your circumstances, there's one thing you can change: your energy.”

“I am notorious for always having two beagles with me, in any and all circumstances.”

“People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.”

“As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.”

“The United States is going to defend itself under any circumstances.”

“A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.”

“I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.”

“I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.”

“It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.”

“I don't know, at times I run a bit too far onto the pitch. But that's only in exceptional circumstances, and Jurgen does it too when a goal is scored!”

“I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated, that we are indeed messy, that we do our best with what we've been given. We come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.”

“Transactional politics requires us to be pragmatic about current realities and the state of public opinion. It's all about getting the best result possible given the circumstances here and now.”

“It's difficult for democracy to function properly under the most favorable circumstances, but it has no chance at all when millions of voters are divorced from objective reality and incapable of understanding what is going on in Washington.”

“Some women lose their husbands, and their worlds change because their financial circumstances change. All I have in common with them is a grief.”

“In some circumstances Max just has to think more. I don't want him to change his driving style.”

“I never write thinking, 'What would a woman do?' any more than I think, 'What would a man do?' It comes down to what would a solid detective do in these circumstances.”

“We are all different. We all have different circumstances, and you have to cope with whatever it is, try not to dwell on things.”

“It's hard to be a good doctor if you don't think about the social circumstances of who you're treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it's difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right-winger.”

“I don't think any of the journalists in 'Broadchurch' are villainous. I think they're all trying to do their jobs under difficult circumstances.”

“It's my job to go out there and play well regardless of the circumstances.”

“The way a play is seen is completely dependent on the circumstances and the world in which it is received.”

“The film 'The Queen' came about with a producer saying to me that he wanted me to write about the circumstances behind Diana's death. I think he was hoping that I would come up with some journalistic scoop that would identify an MI5 covert plot.”

“I mean, it don't matter what the circumstances are. I just want to win, you know, and having that mentality of doing it as a team.”

“Occasional setbacks are probably unavoidable - part of the struggle of living in a fallen world. Other setbacks are due to our own sin and failures, or circumstances outside our control.”

“I've always been open to doing reality again. Just under certain circumstances.”

“I've been fighting since I was a child, fighting to get out of my circumstances.”

“I want to continue to strive towards deepening my relationship with God and finding peace in whatever trials or circumstances I may be given.”