“Man is more powerful than matter.”
“Upright whether in prosperous or in critical circumstances.”
Secundis dubiisque rectus
“He is happy, whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances.”
“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.”
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't 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 can't find them, make them.”
“Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!”
“We are exactly where we have chosen to be.”
“It is a fact that you project what you are.”
“I am bigger than anything that can happen to me.”
“Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.”
“To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.”
“You are where you are today because you've chosen to be there.”
“Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.”
“Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.”
“Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.”
“It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.”
“Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.”
“In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.”
“How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.”
“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”
“Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.”
“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
“We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.”
“It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.”
“How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.”
“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”
“We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.”
“Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.”
“You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you felling otherwise.”
“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.”