Quotes about circumstance
Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.
James Allen
Man is the master of thought, the molder of character, and the maker and shaper of condition, environment, and destiny.
James Allen
Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions. But when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.
James Allen
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
James Allen
There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.
William Halsey
While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
Stephen Covey
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I do not 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 cannot find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Robert Fulghum
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Bertha Calloway
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
Alexander Graham Bell
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