Quotes about circumstance
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances....Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Brian Tracy
Circumstances - what are circumstances? I make circumstances.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton
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 must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will.
Albert Schweitzer
Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them, and not waited until the next year for better.
Edgar Watson Howe
Nobody's problem is ideal. Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.
Dr. Frank Crane
Life doesn't cheat. It doesn't pay in counterfeit coin. It doesn't lock up shop and go home when payday comes. It pays every man exactly what he has earned. The age-old law that a man gets what he earns hasn't been suspended. When we take that truth home and believe it, we've turned a big corner on the high road that runs straight through to success.
Basil Walsh
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