| "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." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Man is not the creature of circumstances. circumstances are the creatures of men." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "The truth is not simply what you think it is it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said." »Vaclav Havel |
| "circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances." »Euripides |
| "circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him." »James Allen |
| "The people and circumstances around me do not MAKE me what I am, they REVEAL who I am." »Dr. Laura Schlessinger |
| "Man without religion is the creature of circumstances." »Augustus Hare |
| "The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer." »Mark Twain |
| "History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances." »Donald Creighton |
| "Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good try to use ordinary situations." »Jean Paul Richter |
| "Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him." »Saint Thomas Aquinas |
| "When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations." »Joseph Addison |
| "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances." »Martha Dandridge Custis Washington |
| "Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant." »Horace |
| "If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give." »Bertrand Russell |
| "Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account." »Hannah Whitall Smith |
| "You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done." »Jack Youngblood |
| "Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances." »J. Donald Wlters |
| "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 |
| "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "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." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession." »Isaac Watts |
| "People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under." »Charles R. Swindoll |
| "History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy." »George Macaulay Trevelyan |
| "Knowledge is essential to conquest only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment." »Anne Besant |
| "Everything can be taken from a man but the last of human freedoms, the right to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances--the right to choose one's own way." »Dr. Viktor E Frankl |
| "Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society." »Edward C. Banfield |
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