Circumstances Quotes

• Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

  Nido R Qubein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Nido R. Qubein (1997). “Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement”, Wiley

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• Circumstances do not make you what you are, they reveal what you are.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude

  John C. Maxwell (2001). “The Power of Thinking Big”, p.141, David C Cook

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• Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Bricks And Mortar, Empathy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”

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  I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

  Martha Washington

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

  Robertson Davies

  Courage, Adversity, Ordinary Extraordinary

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.166, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivation, Don't Give Up, Positivity

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• You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 22, 2015

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• I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.

  Jack Nicholson

  Departed, Want, Environment

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• We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

  Epictetus

  Spiritual, Attitude, Inspiration

  Epictetus, Sharon Lebell (2013). “The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.

  Vivien Greene

  Inspirational, Soulmate, Contentment

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• Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

  Bruce Barton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Bruce Barton (1959). “The Man and the Book Nobody Knows”

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• Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

  Samuel Lover

  Wise, Hard Times, Glitter

  Samuel Lover (1839). “Rory O'More. Revised”, p.151

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• There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

  William Halsey

  Military, Men, History

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• Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Stories, Easier, Deals

  "Turning to One Another". Book by Margaret Wheatley, 2002.

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• It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  May, Impossible, Said

  Quoted in R S Peters (ed) TheConcept of Education (1966), ch.10, 'Learning and Teaching'.

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• To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Happiness, Happy, Morning

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• Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Determinism

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Discipline, Example, Literature

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• The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am

  Laura Schlessinger

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

  Laura Schlessinger (2008). “Stop Whining, Start Living”, p.14, Dr. Laura Schlessinger

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• We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

  Allan Massie

  Action, Responsible, Response

  Allan Massie (2010). “A Question Of Loyalties”, p.238, Canongate Books

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• I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.

  Charles Simeon

  Forgiving, Reason Why, Should

  Charles Simeon (1847). “Memoirs of the life of the Rev. Charles Simeon ...”, p.303

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• Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

  Booker T. Washington

  Character, Men

  "Democracy and Education". Booker T. Washington's Speech at Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn NY, September 30, 1896.

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• 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

  Change, Happiness, Success

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.90, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

  Henry David Thoreau

  People, Literature, Suits

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.486, Simon and Schuster

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• Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Time, Quality, Matter

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