Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
~ James Allen

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
~ Greg Anderson

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.
~ Mario Andretti

And as for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive. [Genesis 50:20]
~ Bible

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee

You are where you are today because you've chosen to be there.
~ Harry Browne

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
~ Leo Buscaglia

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
~ Lord Byron

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
~ Jackie Chan

How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.
~ Parks Cousins

If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
~ Stephen R. Covey

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

Man is more powerful than matter.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.
~ Cotton Fitzsimmons

We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
~ Vernon Howard

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
~ David Hume

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
~ William James

To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.
~ Ken Keyes Jr.

The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.
~ Rabbi Harold S. Kushner