| "Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed." »Peter McWilliams |
| "Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation." »John Herschel Glenn, Jr. |
| "It's not the situation... It's your reaction to the situation." »Robert Conklin |
| "If you are faced with an unpleasant person or situation that you can do nothing about, bless the situation. Bless the person and know and believe some good will come from it. . . . All of us have seen good come out of disaster . . . the 'blessing in disguise.' When you expect good to come from negativity, it will. What you think about, you bring about." »Joyce Duco |
| "It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation." »Frederick W. Robertson |
| "Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation." »Edward R. Murrow |
| "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation." »Jean Kerr |
| "Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity." »Helen Schucman |
| "I never been in no situation where havin' money make it any worse." »Clinton Jones |
| "If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing." »Harry S Truman |
| "Pessimists are in a winwin situation, whatever happens they are either always right or pleasantly suprised." »Unknown |
| "The smaller the understanding of the situation, the more pretentious the form of expression." »John Romano |
| "There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation." »W. C. Fields |
| "We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves." »Francis J. Braceland |
| "The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently." »Ira Erwin |
| "The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger." »Lucan |
| "It is not only the psychology of the people that makes them so exacting-their geographical situation has been equally problematic." »Shimon Peres |
| "It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. (referring to clothing)" »Albert Einstein |
| "I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe." »Abigail Adams |
| "Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem." »Harvey Mindess |
| "If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it." »Diana Nyad |
| "Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation." »Thucyclides |
| "It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously." »Stephen Fry |
| "I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances." »Martha Washington |
| "There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire." »Gamal Abdel Nasser |
| "Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity." »Henry Bromel |
| "It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts." »Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin |
| "I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization." »Detronius Arbiter |
| "A hero is an ordinary person who performs an ordinary task In an extraordinary situation." »Unknown |
| "The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully." »Walter Lippmann |
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