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Circumstance |
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| "Circumstances do not determine a man,
they reveal him." |
| -- James Lane Allen (1849-1923), American
novelist |
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| "He shall fare well who confronts
circumstances aright." |
| -- Plutarch |
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"To
practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect
virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity,
earnestness, and kindness."
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| -- Confucius (c. 551-479? BC), Chinese sage |
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“The only sure thing about
luck is that it will change.” |
| -- Bret
Harte |
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| "No man ever became wise by
chance". |
| -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4BC?-AD 65), Roman
Stoic philosopher, writer, tutor |
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| "Man is not the creature of circumstances.
Circumstances are the creatures of men." |
| -- Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
(1804-81), British politician |
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| "Luck is a word devoid of sense; nothing
can exist without a cause." |
| -- Voltaire |
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| "Chance never helps those who do not help
themselves.' |
| -- Sophocles |
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| "Luck affects everything. Let your hook be
always cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be
fish." |
| -- Ovid |
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| "You must always be open to your luck. You
cannot force it, but you can recognize it." |
| -- Henry Moore |
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| "Religion is a bandage that man has
invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance." |
| -- Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (1871-1945),
American novelist |
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| "The last of the human
freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of
circumstances, to choose one's own way." |
| -- Dr. Viktor E(mil) Frankl (1905-97),
Austrian-born psychiatrist & writer |
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| “The
ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making
the best of circumstances.” |
| -- Aristotle, Greek philosopher |
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| "Chance fights ever on the side of the
prudent." |
| -- Euripides (480?-406 BC), Greek dramatist |
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| "The greater part of happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances." |
| -- Martha Washington (1731-1802), US First
Lady, wife of George Washington |
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| "Adversity has the effect of eliciting
talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain
dormant." |
| -- Horace (65-8 BC), Roman lyric poet |
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| "Nothing splendid has ever been achieved
except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was
superior to circumstance." |
| -- Bruce Barton (1886-1967), American writer,
congressman |
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| “Modern man’s besetting temptation is to
sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his
reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of
his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.” |
| -- Aldous Huxley |
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| "People who soar are those who refuse to
sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain
of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in.
Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters;
they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold
them under." |
| -- Charles R. Swindoll |
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| "I will study and get ready, and perhaps
my chance will come." |
| -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), 16th US President |
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| "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 (1856-1950), Irish-born
British playwright |
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| "Chance is always powerful. - Let your
hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there
will be a fish." |
| -- Ovid (43 BC-AD 17), Roman poet |
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| "There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,
that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a
determined soul." |
| -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919), American
writer, poet |
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| "Nothing gives one person so much
advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under
all circumstances." |
| -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd US
President |
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| "Under certain circumstances, profanity
provides a relief denied even to prayer." |
| -- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) |
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| "Circumstances are the colors on the
palette that humans paint with, not the picture." |
| -- Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002), American
writer |
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| "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." |
| -- Bertrand Russel (1872-1970), British
philosopher, mathematician |
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| "Religion is a bandage that man has
invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance." |
| -- Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (1871-1945),
American writer |
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| "It will generally be found that men who
are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the
consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence,
or want of application." |
| -- Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) |
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