In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about. Ronald Wilson Reagan

• circumstance
• democracy
• opportunity

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

• attitude
• circumstance
• change

Circumstances - what are circumstances? I make circumstances. Napoleon Bonaparte

• circumstance

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

• attitude
• confidence
• circumstance
• achievement
• accomplishment

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

• circumstance

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will. Albert Schweitzer

• will
• circumstance

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

• initiative
• circumstance

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

• circumstance
• initiative

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

• circumstance
• fairness

Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance. James Allen

• personality
• subconscious
• circumstance
• character
• attitude
• mind

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Man is the master of thought, the molder of character, and the maker and shaper of condition, environment, and destiny. James Allen

• character
• circumstance
• thought
• destiny

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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
• destiny

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Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself. James Allen

• circumstance

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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

• circumstance

While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses. Stephen Covey

• circumstance

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

• circumstance
• initiative

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

• circumstance

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. Bertha Calloway

• circumstance

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

• circumstance
• self improvement

It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts. Jim Rohn

• 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

• hope
• circumstance

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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

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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

• responsibility
• circumstance

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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

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad. Marcus Aurelius

• circumstance

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It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet. Marcus Aurelius

• circumstance

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For the only safe harbour in this life's tossing, troubled sea is to refuse to be bothered about what the future will bring and to stand ready and confident, squaring the breast to take without skulking or flinching whatever fortune hurls at us. Seneca

• circumstance
• fear

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Once you possess the power to circumvent limitations, to control things most people consider immutable, you're liberated from the tyranny of events. You're no longer an observer; you're in command. You've become a hacker. John Walker

• circumstance

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