Best circumstances & position Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.”

People Persons Sometimes Humanity Position Circumstances Extremes Short Time

Author:Irvine Welsh

“The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.”

Way Strong Results Enemy Successful Records Military Position Circumstances Direct Pressure Consistently Commanders Under Pressure

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“From the circumstances of my position, I was often thrown into the society of horse-racers, card-players, fox-hunters, scientific and professional men, and of dignified men; and many a time have I asked myself, in the enthusiastic moment of the death of a fox, the victory of a favorite horse, the issue of a question eloquently argued at the bar, or in the great council of the nation, well, which of these kinds of reputation should I prefer? That of a horse-jockey, a fox-hunter, an orator, or the honest advocate of my country's rights?”

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

“Eden ha[s] put his country in a position where she sustained the greatest diplomatic reverse since Bismarck in similar circumstances had called Palmerston's bluff in the matter of Schleswig-Holstein...Further damage was done when Russia proved by her action in Spain, that she was not a good European as Mr. Eden had assured the world was the case.”

World Country Matter Done Action Cases Position Circumstances Russia Damage Reverse Spain Assured Eden Diplomatic Bluffs Bismarck

Author:Anthony Eden

“We should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried. The more I am in a position to be tried in faith, the more I will have the opportunity of seeing God’s help and deliverance. Every fresh instance in which He helps and delivers me will increase my faith. The believer should not shrink from situations, positions, or circumstances in which his faith may be tried, but he should cheerfully embrace them as opportunities to see the hand of God stretched out in help and deliverance. Thus his faith will be strengthened.”

Should May Helping Hands Opportunity Situation Seeing Position Circumstances Increase Embrace Believer Instance Shrinks Deliverance Hands Of God

Author:George Muller

“I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and justify my position by formulating a definition of MAGICK and setting forth its main principles in such a way that ALL may understand instantly that their souls, their lives, in every relation with every other human being and every circumstance, depend upon MAGICK and the right comprehension and right application thereof.”

Source: Magick: In Theory and Practice

“The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was the son of Heli' could refer to the wife of the one, or the daughter-in-law of the other, shows to what desperate stratagems polemical orthodoxy will resort in order to defend an untenable position.”

Source: The creed of Christendom: its foundations and superstructure

“A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of [circumstances]... The man who is ambitious to lead is disqualified as a leader. The true leader will have no desire to lord it over God's heritage, but will be humble, gentle, self-sacrificing and altogether ready to follow when the Spirit chooses another to lead.”

Men Self Spirit Desire Leader Lord Sacrifice Position He Man Ready Circumstances Holy Safe Pressure Presses Humble Gentle Holy Spirit Heritage Ambitious Inward Be Humble True Leader

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“The difference in sex does not hinder the ability of being strong on the levels of thinking, giving, having a strong willpower and the ability to take the right decision and the right position after studying all options, once the circumstances that favor creativity and rational thinking are available.”

“The act of abortion positions women at their most powerful, and that is why it is so strongly opposed by many in society. Historically viewed as and conditioned to be passive, dependent creatures, victims of biological circumstance, women often find it difficult to embrace this power over life and death. They fall prey to the assumption, the myth, that they cannot be trusted with it.”

Fall Difficult Powerful Position Circumstances Creatures Victim Embrace Myth Assumption Abortion Dependent Life And Death Most Powerful Trusted Passive Prey

Book:Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room

Source: Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room

“Never, under any circumstances, accept a position of responsibility. You will be forced to work harder with no other benefits than a few extra bucks - 'peanuts,' as they say, if that.”

Ifs Work Responsibility Accepting Position Hard Work Circumstances Benefits Harder Extras Bucks Work Harder Peanuts

Book:Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

Source: Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

“Position yourself well enough, and circumstances will do the rest.”

Wells Enough Position Circumstances

Author:Mason Cooley

“I definitely think we need to lean more on God. And I do think we need to praise, because we need to give it outward. You know, whenever you think you're in tough circumstances, there's always somebody who's in a worse position than you.”

Thinking Knows Needs Giving Position Circumstances Tough Praise

Author:Queen Latifah

“A flip-flopper is an intelligent person who changes position when the circumstance changes.”

Persons Position Circumstances Intelligent Flip Intelligent Person

Author:Peter Yarrow

“If you are in poor health, you can remedy it. If your personal relationships are unsatisfactory, you can change them for the better. If you are in poverty, you can find yourself surrounded by abundance... Each of you, regardless of position, status, circumstances, or physical condition, is in control or your own experience.”

Ifs Poor Poverty Conditions Position Circumstances Abundance Finding Yourself Remedy Personal Relationships Poor Health

Author:Seth

“When a stock doubles, sell half - then what you have is a free position. Then it becomes more of an art form. When you sell depends on individual circumstances.”

Art Form Individual Half Position Depends Circumstances Sells

Author:Peter Cundill

“Intrinsic security doesn't come from what other people think of us or how they treat us. It doesn't come from our circumstance or out position. It comes from within. It comes from accurate paradigms and correct principles deep in our own mind and heart. It comes from inside-out congruence, from living a life of integrity in which our daily habits reflect our deepest values.”

People Thinking Mind Heart Values Principles Security Position Habit Circumstances Integrity Treats Accurate Heart And Mind Paradigm Daily Habits Congruence

Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“Here is the difference between hope with Jesus and hope without Jesus. Hope without Jesus is waiting for your position or circumstance to change. To be waiting and hoping that someday things aren't how they are now. There is nothing wrong with waiting for a miracle, but some miracles don't always come. Life without Jesus is a life without purpose.”

Purpose Jesus Waiting Differences Position Circumstances Miracle Someday Waiting And Hoping

Author:Nick Vujicic

“I think that it's an arguable position, whether with Hamas and ISIS around, whether there should be a Palestinian state, but it's a defensible position, given the current circumstances.”

Thinking Should States Given Position Circumstances Currents Palestinian Isis Hamas

Author:David Brooks

“Inevitably in my career of 35 years, I was in one turnaround circumstance after another, and I was personally put in positions of significant responsibility but without complete authority over everyone that needed to be mobilized.”

Years Responsibility Careers Position Needed Circumstances Authority Significant Turnaround

Author:Kevin Allen

“No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.”

World Mind Matter Opportunity Position Circumstances Shapes Interpreting Freedom To Choose

Book:The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

Source: The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

“The problem the world faces today is that only one-third of the world's population lives in decent circumstances, while half the population of the world lives on one or two dollars a day. And even as we have this poverty and backwardness, we are facing a global environmental crisis. We need developmental models that will take into account the specific and unique position of each country and at the same time will address the environmental crisis.”

“When I was a lawyer, I looked around at the female partners at the law firm - this is many years ago. And there were three. And they were lovely and they had three very different life circumstances and journeys that had gotten them to that vaunted position.”

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Author:Kellyanne Conway

“The Cuban people along with international solidarity defeated this imperial position [America] in the middle of the 21st century and have demonstrated the potential of a nation that has lived under an iron handed blockade and permanent aggression including state sponsored terrorism and yet has survived. In the new circumstances we have the absolute conviction that we will move forward even more than we already have.”

“Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbit to tell us what he looks like hopping through the grasses of the field. How would he know? If we want to hear about the field on the other hand, no one is in a better circumstance to tell us-so long as we keep in mind that we are missing all those things the rabbit was in no position to observe.”

Ifs Knows Want Mind Looks Long Hands Missing Fields Position Circumstances Asking Grass Autobiography Rabbits Hopping

Author:Arthur Golden

“In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create a natural doubt of the authenticity of my narrative.”

Natural Doubt Position Circumstances Authenticity Narrative Refuge Confinement Demented

Book:The Tomb

Source: The Tomb

“You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.”

Wells Ends Responsibility Enemy Careers Position Circumstances One Day Conflict Structure Complexes Casts Thrown Patriotism Unusual Dissent Sense Of Responsibility Dissidents Branded

Author:Vaclav Havel

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