Quotes on Circumstance

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.Mark Caine

• circumstance
• success

We are always faced with different challenges, and circumstances necessitate bringing out the greatness God puts in all of us.Lou Holtz

• circumstance
• adversity
• challenge

An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands.John Wooden

• leadership
• circumstance
• flexibility

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.Louis Mann

• circumstance

When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation.Stephen Covey

• circumstance
• hope

This is the source.

You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.Harold Kushner

• circumstance
• control

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.Stephen Covey

• circumstance
• values
• principle

This is the source.

All things are created twice, but not all first creations are by conscious design. In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances outside our Circle of Influence to shape much of our lives by default. We reactively live the scripts handed to us by family, associates, other people's agendas, the pressures of circumstance - scripts from our earlier years, from our training, our conditioning.Stephen Covey

• circumstance
• responsibility

This is the source.

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.Ezra Taft Benson

• God
• religion
• circumstance